James Thurber Quotes

Don't get it right, just get it written

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess

I hate women because they always know where things are

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

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

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

A lady of forty-seven who had been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: 'Love is what you've been through with somebody.'.

It's a naive domestic little Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption