If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
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… — 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
If I have sometimes seemed to make fun of Woman, I assure you it has only been for the purpose of egging… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
He had as much fun in the water as any person I have known. You didn't have to throw a stick in… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
I never had a dog that showed a human fear of death. Death, to a dog, is the final unavoidable compulsion, the… — 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
My grandmother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
I have figured for you the distance between the horns of a dilemma, night and day, and A and Z. I have… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one… — 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
