All James Thurber Quotes
- Progress was all right. Only it went on too long. All
- Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision. Airplane
- I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance. All
- The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers… Animal
- Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years. Age
- There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. Glare
- There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception. Every Rule
- Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else? Everybody
- A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense. Make Sense
- He who hesitates is sometimes saved. Hesitates
- The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he… Apart
- A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption. Always Dragged
- 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. Believe
- All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first. All
- With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs. Birthday
- Discussion in America means dissent. America
- It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption. Amused
- Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. Face
- Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation. Desperation
- 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. Animal