It was Lisa, aged five, whose mother asked her to thank my wife for the peas we had sent them from our… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Muggs was always sorry, Mother said, when he bit someone, but we could never understand how she figured this out. He didn't… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
What would you do without me? Say 'nothing.'" "Nothing," said the Prince. "Good. Then you're helpless and I'll help you. — 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
You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“Against the may, the could be, and the should, folly 'tis to balance doubt or hope.” — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“ 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 Image
“you might as well fall on your face as lean over too far backwards” — 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
“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 Image