Some quotes by James Thurber
Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
Humor 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.
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.
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
James Thurber on light
I hate women because they always know where things are.
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
James Thurber on age
He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
Don’t get it right, just get it written.