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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

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness. — 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

It is all but impossible to sit quietly by when someone is throwing salad plates. — James Thurber

Love is what you've been through with somebody — James Thurber

You have made the moon," The Jester said. "That is the moon. — 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

Man has always assumed that his is the highest form of life in the universe. There is, of course, nothing at all with which to sustain this view. — James Thurber

Lately, I have been wondering if there is time left for daydreaming in this 21st-century world of constant communication. — James Thurber

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough. — James Thurber

Americans want to go to heaven without dying. — James Thurber

For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide. — James Thurber

Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer. — 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 mere device," he gnarled. "You platitude! Your Gollux ex machina! — 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

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

A new day always forgives you, unless it's raining and you wake up in jail. — Bob 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

Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre. — James Thurber

Men are more interesting than women, but women ae more fascinating. — James Thurber

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more. — 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

Quick, name some towns in New Jersey — James Thurber

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps. — James Thurber

American girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can. — 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

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first. — James Thurber

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere. — 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

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

Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight. — James Thurber

Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes. — E.B. White

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

It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers. — James Thurber

When man gives up on reforming and inspiring society he also gives up his freedom. — James Thurber

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

Well, I'm disenchanted, too. We're all disenchanted. — 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

I hate women because they always remember where things are. — James Thurber

I'll never know the right answer for sex and marriage, sense and mirage. — 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

Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy, wealthy, and dead. — 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

Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything. — 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

I would be the last person to say that madness is not a solution. — 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

Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After. — James Thurber

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

I hate women because they have brought into the currency of our language such expressions as "all righty" and "yes indeedy" and hundreds of others. — 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

Against the may, the could be, and the should, folly 'tis to balance doubt or hope. — James Thurber

Meanwhile, I work the route. I don't quit, I don't complain. Each day I learn more than I earn. Things are going to get better. — Bob Thurber

You might as well fall on your face as lean over too far backwards — 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

its better to know some question than all answers -James Thurber — R.J. Palacio

I am the Golux, the only Golux in the world and not a mere device — James Thurber

Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more. — James Thurber

Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has. — James Thurber