Jules Feiffer famous quotes

03-24-2025

I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.
-- Jules Feiffer

#Doctors #Anxiety #Normal
Design is important because chaos is so hard.
-- Jules Feiffer

#Design #Important #Chaos
Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.
-- Jules Feiffer

#Art #Stupid #Thinking
Be warned against all 'good' advice because 'good' advice is necessarily 'safe' advice, and though it will undoubtedly follow a sane pattern, it will very likely lead one into total sterility--one of the crushing problems of our time.
-- Jules Feiffer

#Crush #Advice #Patterns
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
-- Jules Feiffer

#Break Up #Humorous #Kids
We are all continually embarking on first drafts, in every aspect of our lives.
-- Jules Feiffer

#Firsts #Aspect
The weekly cartoons, as were my plays, came from a sense of criticism, criticism of the times, critical of the culture, of our manners and attitudes towards each other. The children's books come from the reverse. They're more supportive, since we're living in a time where we talk more about kids and do less, we talk about balancing the budget and we do it by cutting education.
-- Jules Feiffer

#Children #Attitude #Book
Remember when you were a kid and the boys didn't like the girls? Only sissies liked girls? What I'm trying to tell you is that nothing's changed. You think boys grow out of not liking girls, but we don't grow out of it. We just grow horny. That's the problem. We mix up liking ***** for liking girls. Believe me, one couldn't have less to do with the other.
-- Jules Feiffer

#Girl #Believe #Kids
Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function.
-- Jules Feiffer

#Frustration #Imagination #Tradition
We want playmates we can own.
-- Jules Feiffer

#Marriage #Want
Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
-- Jules Feiffer

#Jesus #Forgiving #Sin
It is not size or age that separates children from adults. It is responsibility.
-- Jules Feiffer

#Children #Responsibility #Age
I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.
-- Jules Feiffer

#Mother #Father #Looks
At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?
-- Jules Feiffer

#Wise #Stupid #Confused
Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.
-- Jules Feiffer

#Morning #Bed
I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I was not poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still do not have a dime but I have a great vocabulary.
-- Jules Feiffer

#Thinking #Self #Vocabulary
Writing, I explained, was mainly an attempt to out-argue one's past; to present events in such a light that battles lost in life were either won on paper or held to a draw.
-- Jules Feiffer

#Writing #Past #Light
Good swiping is an art in itself.
-- Jules Feiffer

#Art #Robbery

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