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There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
— James Thurber
I don't remember any blue poodles.
— James Thurber
Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
— James Thurber
Love is what you've been through with somebody
— James Thurber
I hate women because they always remember where things are.
— James Thurber
I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint-old man propaganda.
— 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.
— James Thurber
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
Lately, I have been wondering if there is time left for daydreaming in this 21st-century world of constant communication.
— James Thurber
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
— James Thurber
Beautiful things don't ask for attention.
— James Thurber
I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight.
— James Thurber
I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.
— James Thurber
You have made the moon," The Jester said. "That is the moon.
— James Thurber
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
— James Thurber
The noblest study of mankind is Man, says Man.
— James Thurber
The unicorn is a mythical beast,
— James Thurber
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
— James Thurber
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
— James Thurber
Man 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
The oyster is a blob of glup, but a woman is a woman.
— James Thurber
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
— James Thurber
Let the meek inherit the earth they have it coming to them. — James Thurber
He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
— James Thurber
I won't be listed and labeled or tabbed and tagged," said Clode. "If I want a book, I'll get a book.
— James Thurber
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
— James Thurber
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
— James Thurber
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
— James Thurber
I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance. — James Thurber
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
— James Thurber
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
— James Thurber
Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
— James Thurber
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.
— James Thurber
This time the destruction was so complete ... That nothing at all was left in the world
Except one man
And one woman
And one flower — James Thurber
Well, I'm disenchanted, too. We're all disenchanted.
— James Thurber
No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.
— James Thurber
It's forty kilometers through hell, sir," said the sergeant. Mitty finished one last brandy. "After all," he said softly, "what isn't?
— James Thurber
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
Women deserve to have more than 12 years between 28 and 40.
— James Thurber
If I have sometimes seemed to make fun of Woman, I assure you it has only been for the purpose of egging her on.
— James Thurber
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
— James Thurber
If you are a police dog, where's your badge?
— James Thurber
He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
— James Thurber
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
— James Thurber
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti.
— James Thurber
She has a memory of trees and fields and nothing more.
— James Thurber
The Old Man ain't afraid of hell
— James Thurber
I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
— James Thurber
At least she's not guilty of integrity, and that's more than I can say of any Bell in four generations except my grandfather and myself.
— James Thurber
What would you do without me? Say 'nothing.'""Nothing," said the Prince.
"Good. Then you're helpless and I'll help you. — James Thurber
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
— James Thurber
Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.
— James Thurber
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
— James Thurber
Let us not look back to the past with anger, nor towards the future with fear, but look around with awareness.
— James Thurber
If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
— James Thurber
We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.
— James Thurber
Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.
— James Thurber
A guest at a dinner party observed the strange expression on James Thurber's face. 'Don't be concerned,' said Thurber's wife. 'He's writing.'
— Sophy Burnham
Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
— James Thurber
I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.
— James Thurber
I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?
— James Thurber
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
— James Thurber
There was a mist of moss to ride through and a storm of glass.
— James Thurber
So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.
— James Thurber
Quick, name some towns in New Jersey
— James Thurber
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
— James Thurber
A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.
— James Thurber
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
— James Thurber
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
— James Thurber
A woman's place is in the wrong.
— James Thurber
Time lies frozen there. It's always Then. It's never Now.
— James Thurber
