All James Thurber Quotes
- The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed… Allows
- The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to… Average
- Quick, name some towns in New Jersey Inspirational
- These are the days of bootleg love. Bootleg
- I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method. Always Begin
- The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself. Fun
- Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to the naked truth about Salvador Dali as an old ukulele… Accompanying
- It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy. Fault
- I loathe the expression “What makes him tick.” It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solutions, that uses the foolish expression. A… American
- Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised Achievement
- Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After. Blessed
- I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he… Disturbed
- Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street. Apathy
- You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go… All
- Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer. Company
- She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about. Inspirational
- Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they drink furniture polish… Apartment
- It was Lisa, aged five, whose mother asked her to thank my wife for the peas we had sent them from our garden. 'I thought… Aged
- For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide. Flower
- Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage. Any
- I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your… Cannot Feel
- Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long. Angel
- I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil… Accident
- What would you do without me? Say 'nothing.'" "Nothing," said the Prince. "Good. Then you're helpless and I'll help you. Good
- Salvador [Dali] was brought up in Spain, a country colored by the legends of Hannibal, El Greco, and Cervantes. I was brought up in Ohio,… Anti