All James Thurber Quotes
- Beautiful things don't ask for attention. Ask
- Youcanfooltoomanyofthepeopletoomuchofthetime. See Lincoln 510:35. Funny
- You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. Fool
- Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything. Anything Since
- Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. Age
- Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead. Bed
- We all have faults, and mine is being wicked. All
- It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all. All
- Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person. Account
- The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal. Forms
- The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is… Animals
- Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is… Avoid
- Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober. American
- Next to reasoning, the greatest handicap to the optimum development of Man lies in the fact that this planet is just barely habitable. Its minimum… Accident
- Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddamn Blind
- Love is a many splintered thing. Love
- Love is composed of so many sensations, that something new of it can always be said Composed
- Love is like the wind. You cannot see it... But you can feel it. Cannot See
- Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty Ages
- Don't get it right, just get it written. Writing
- Let the meek inherit the earth - they have it coming to them Coming
- Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one… Affirmation
- While he was not dumber than an ox, he was not any smarter either. Any