Every time is a time for comedy in a world of tension that would languish without it. But I cannot confine myself… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, in a gloomy castle on a lonely hill, where there were thirteen clocks that wouldn't go, there lived… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“I can do a score of things that can’t be done. I can find a thing I can’t see, and I see… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“Let us not look back to the past with anger, nor towards the future with fear, but look around with awareness.” — 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
“You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. --Fables for Our Time, Moral of “The Owl Who… — 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