James Thurber Quotes

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

Taking a single letter from the alphaber," he said, "should make life simpler.""I don't see why. Tak...

She has a memory of trees and fields and nothing more.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity.

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, can...

Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score man wants a great deal here below and Wom...

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

I'm sixty-five but if there were fifteen months in every year I'd only be forty-eight.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

We all have flaws and mine is being wicked.

Let us not look back in anger nor forward in fear but around us in awareness.

You have made the moon," The Jester said. "That is the moon.

You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we ...

I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had...

Live life by the abc's...adventure, bravery and creativity.

Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.

All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from and to and why.

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages o...

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear...

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised

The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of h...

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, ...

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather...

It's a naive domestic burgundy without any breeding but I think you'll be amused by its presumption...

I am 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were 15 months in every year ...

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

On his misfit globe he has outlasted the mammoth and the pterodactyl, but he has never got the upper...

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurit...

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive g...

I admire the person who can write it right off. Mencken once said that a person who thinks clearly c...

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of h...

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal ours is apath...

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

In his grief over the loss of a dog, a little boy stands for the first time on tiptoe, peering into ...

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable re...

The average sendentary man of our time who is at all suggestible must emerge from this chapter belie...

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dri...

...the Princess Saralinda thought she saw, as people often think they see, on clear and windless day...

...I would be the last person to say that madness is not a solution.

Woman's place is in the wrong.

I'll never know the right answer for sex and marriage, sense and mirage.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is an...

Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take t...

I hate women because they always know where things are.

A lady of forty-seven who has been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love r...

The jewels of sorrow last forever

I have always thought of a dog lover as a dog that was in love with another dog.

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, w...

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequentl...

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and...