Best Quotes by James Thurber (Top 10)
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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
James Thurber
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There are two kinds of light—the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
James Thurber
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
James Thurber
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Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -James Thurber.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
James Thurber
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The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
James Thurber
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake
James Thurber
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
James Thurber
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Love is what you've been through with somebody.
James Thurber
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I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
James Thurber
More James Thurber Quotes
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Don't get it right, just get it written
James Thurber
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception
James Thurber
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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
James Thurber
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Boys 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
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
James Thurber
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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
James Thurber
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
James Thurber
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The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess
James Thurber
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I hate women because they always know where things are
James Thurber
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He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
James Thurber
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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself
James Thurber
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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.
James Thurber
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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
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Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
James Thurber
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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.'.
James Thurber
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It's a naive domestic little Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption
James Thurber