Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
When man gives up on reforming and inspiring society he also gives up his freedom. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised — James Thurber Copy Share Image
I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprintold man… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Somebody has said that woman's place is in the wrong. That's fine. What the wrong needs is a woman's presence and a… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance,… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Every man is occasionally visited by the suspicion that the planet on which he is riding is not really going anywhere; that… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
It did not take Man long-probably not more than a hundred centuries-to discover that all the animals except the dog were impossible… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Salvador [Dali] was brought up in Spain, a country colored by the legends of Hannibal, El Greco, and Cervantes. I was brought up in… — James Thurber Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“Against the may, the could be, and the should, folly 'tis to balance doubt or hope.” — James Thurber Copy Share
Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person. — James Thurber Copy Share
“ There was an old coddle so molly, He talked in a glot that was poly, His gaws were so gew That his laps… — James Thurber Copy Share
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why. — James Thurber Copy Share
“I don’t understand,” said the scientist, “why you lemmings all rush down to the sea and drown yourselves.” “How curious,” said the lemming. “The… — James Thurber Copy Share
Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point… — James Thurber Copy Share
Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going. — James Thurber Copy Share
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine… — James Thurber Copy Share
