James Thurber Quotes
+4Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
- James Thurber
+3Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
- James Thurber
+1It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
- James Thurber
+1You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
– James Thurber
+1Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty eight and forty.
- James Thurber
+1Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
- James Thurber
+1I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unseasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
- James Thurber
+1There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
- James Thurber
+1Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.
- James Thurber
+1All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
- James Thurber
+1Early to rise and early to bed Makes a man healthy and wealthy and dead.
- James Thurber
+1The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
- James Thurber
+1The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
- James Thurber
+1Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
- James Thurber
+1There are two kinds of light the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
- James Thurber
+1If I have any beliefs about immortality it is that certain dogs I know will go to heaven, and very very few people.
- James Thurber
+1Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.
- James Thurber
+1Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
+1I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance a sharp vindictive glance.
- James Thurber
+1Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity.
- James Thurber
0Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
- James Thurber
0Love is blind, but desire just doesn’t give a good goddamn.
- James Thurber
0The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
- James Thurber
0The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is any body’s guess.
- James Thurber
-3A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.
- James Thurber