--- title: "Best James Thurber Lines" description: "James Grover Thurber was an American cartoonist, writer, humorist, journalist and playwright born in Columbus, Ohio. He worked as a code clerk in Paris,..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b135/author-james-thurber-1534.jpg" --- ![Portrait of James Thurber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b135/author-james-thurber-1534.jpg) # James Thurber (1894–1961) Journalist United States **229** quotes in **876** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet James Thurber was a journalist from the United States, best known for *Thurber Carnival*. ## Quick Facts About James Thurber Born December 8, 1894 Died November 2, 1961 Nationality United States Profession Journalist Notable works Thurber Carnival Known for My World and Welcome to It, Is Sex Necessary? Or, Why You Feel the Way You Do, My Life and Hard Times, The Last Flower ## About James Thurber James Grover Thurber was an American cartoonist, writer, humorist, journalist and playwright born in Columbus, Ohio. He worked as a code clerk in Paris, reported for the Columbus Dispatch, and became a popular contributor to The New Yorker in 1927. He attended Ohio State University but left in 1918 without graduating, and he married his first wife, Althea Adams, in 1922. ## Quotes by James Thurber · Page 6 > [Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/love-is-the-strange-bewilderment-that-overtakes-one-person-on-account/) [James Thurber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thurber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/742/james-thurber-1534_account_love-is-the-strange-bewilderment-that-ov_88937.png) > [The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/the-wit-makes-fun-of-other-persons-the-satirist-makes-fun-of-the/) [James Thurber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thurber/) [Fun](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fun/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d8/james-thurber-1534_fun_the-wit-makes-fun-of-other-persons-the-s_2681198.png) > [The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/the-laughter-of-man-is-more-terrible-than-his-tears-and-takes-more/) [James Thurber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thurber/) [Comedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/comedy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d83/james-thurber-1534_comedy_the-laughter-of-man-is-more-terrible-tha_760743.png) > [“It’s forty kilometers through hell, sir,” said the sergeant. Mitty finished one last brandy. “After all,” he said softly, “what isn’t?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/it-s-forty-kilometers-through-hell-sir-said-the-sergeant-mitty/) [James Thurber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thurber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e69/james-thurber-1534_said-sergeant_it-s-forty-kilometers-through-hell-sir-s_1762630.png) > [I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/i-always-begin-at-the-left-with-the-opening-word-of-the-sentence-and/) [James Thurber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thurber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/95b/james-thurber-1534_begin_i-always-begin-at-the-left-with-the-open_370583.png) > [My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/my-drawings-have-been-described-as-pre-internationalist-meaning-that/) [James Thurber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thurber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb2/james-thurber-1534_arguing_my-drawings-have-been-described-as-pre-i_1394844.png) > [“All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/all-human-beings-should-try-to-learn-before-they-die-what-they-are/) [James Thurber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thurber/) [Aphorism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/aphorism/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/531/james-thurber-1534_aphorism_all-human-beings-should-try-to-learn-bef_527704.png) > [Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/comedy-has-to-be-done-en-clair-you-can-t-blunt-the-edge-of-wit-or-the/) [James Thurber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thurber/) [Comedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/comedy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/698/james-thurber-1534_comedy_comedy-has-to-be-done-en-clair-you-can-t_270262.jpg) > [“The old man moaned and maundered, murmured, muttered, mumbled odds of this and ends of that, bits and pieces, shreds and edges,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/the-old-man-moaned-and-maundered-murmured-muttered-mumbled-odds-of/) [James Thurber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thurber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc7/james-thurber-1534_bits-and-pieces_the-old-man-moaned-and-maundered-murmure_2943172.png) > [“I admire the person who can write it right off. Mencken once said that a person who thinks clearly can write well.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/i-admire-the-person-who-can-write-it-right-off-mencken-once-said-that/) [James Thurber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thurber/) [Humor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/humor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/072/james-thurber-1534_humor_i-admire-the-person-who-can-write-it-rig_1358941.png) > [The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music... it is worth anyone's while to dally here for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/the-whole-of-paris-is-a-vast-university-of-art-literature-and-music/) [James Thurber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thurber/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6c/james-thurber-1534_art_the-whole-of-paris-is-a-vast-university_2098192.png) > [ Salvador \[Dali\] was brought up in Spain, a country colored by the legends of Hannibal, El Greco, and Cervantes. I was brought… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/salvador-dali-was-brought-up-in-spain-a-country-colored-by-the/) [James Thurber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thurber/) [Army](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/army/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6b/james-thurber-1534_army_salvador-dali-was-brought-up-in-spain-a_39625.png) > [“At forty my faculties may have closed up like flowers at evening, leaving me unable to write my memoirs with a fitting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/at-forty-my-faculties-may-have-closed-up-like-flowers-at-evening/) [James Thurber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thurber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/680/james-thurber-1534_discreet_at-forty-my-faculties-may-have-closed-up_2763978.jpg) > [What would you do without me? Say 'nothing.'" "Nothing," said the Prince. "Good. Then you're helpless and I'll help you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/what-would-you-do-without-me-say-nothing-nothing-said-the-prince-good/) [James Thurber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thurber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/482/james-thurber-1534_helping_what-would-you-do-without-me-say-nothing_581760.png) > [Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/though-statisticians-in-our-time-have-never-kept-the-score-man-wants/) [James Thurber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thurber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/213/james-thurber-1534_deals_though-statisticians-in-our-time-have-ne_3112809.png) > [“To see things thousands of miles away, things hidden behind walls and within rooms, things dangerous to come to, to draw closer,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/to-see-things-thousands-of-miles-away-things-hidden-behind-walls-and/) [James Thurber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thurber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/876/james-thurber-1534_draw-closer_to-see-things-thousands-of-miles-away-th_674804.jpg) > [“The Duke is lamer than I am old, and I am shorter than he is cold, but it comes to you with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/the-duke-is-lamer-than-i-am-old-and-i-am-shorter-than-he-is-cold-but/) [James Thurber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thurber/) [Fool](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fool/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13a/james-thurber-1534_fool_the-duke-is-lamer-than-i-am-old-and-i-am_1564972.png) > [Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/boys-are-beyond-the-range-of-anybody-s-sure-understanding-at-least/) [James Thurber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thurber/) [Boys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/boys/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0f/james-thurber-1534_boys_boys-are-beyond-the-range-of-anybody-s-s_2284664.png) > [The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/the-only-rules-comedy-can-tolerate-are-those-of-taste-and-the-only/) [James Thurber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thurber/) [Comedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/comedy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de6/james-thurber-1534_comedy_the-only-rules-comedy-can-tolerate-are-t_1287915.png) > [I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/i-can-feel-a-thing-i-cannot-touch-and-touch-a-thing-i-cannot-feel-the/) [James Thurber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thurber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f6/james-thurber-1534_feel_i-can-feel-a-thing-i-cannot-touch-and-to_2776294.jpg) > [I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/i-don-t-believe-the-writer-should-know-too-much-where-he-s-going-if/) [James Thurber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thurber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/051/james-thurber-1534_believe_i-don-t-believe-the-writer-should-know-t_1549261.png) > [Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/unless-artists-can-remember-what-it-was-to-be-a-little-boy-they-are/) [James Thurber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thurber/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/967/james-thurber-1534_art_unless-artists-can-remember-what-it-was_2647583.png) > [“In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/in-other-countries-art-and-literature-are-left-to-a-lot-of-shabby-2/) [James Thurber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thurber/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b68/james-thurber-1534_art_in-other-countries-art-and-literature-ar_590275.png) > [I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/i-m-sixty-five-and-i-guess-that-puts-me-in-with-the-geriatrics-but-if/) [James Thurber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thurber/) [Age](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/age/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed5/james-thurber-1534_age_i-m-sixty-five-and-i-guess-that-puts-me_1939224.png) > [Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/until-a-man-can-quit-talking-loudly-to-himself-in-order-to-shout-down/) [James Thurber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thurber/) [Distress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/distress/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d58/james-thurber-1534_distress_until-a-man-can-quit-talking-loudly-to-h_1453425.png) > [Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/comedy-has-ceased-to-be-a-challenge-to-the-mental-processes-it-has/) [James Thurber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thurber/) [Challenges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/challenges/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/401/james-thurber-1534_challenges_comedy-has-ceased-to-be-a-challenge-to-t_2507306.png) > [With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/with-sixty-staring-me-in-the-face-i-have-developed-inflammation-of/) [James Thurber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thurber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee9/james-thurber-1534_sentence-structure_with-sixty-staring-me-in-the-face-i-have_1105060.png) > [Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/things-have-dropped-from-me-i-have-outlived-certain-desires-i-have/) [James Thurber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thurber/) [Apathy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/apathy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/294/james-thurber-1534_apathy_things-have-dropped-from-me-i-have-outli_2836764.png) > [“A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption. A word to the wise is not sufficient if it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/a-drawing-is-always-dragged-down-to-the-level-of-its-caption-a-word/) [James Thurber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thurber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/abe/james-thurber-1534_drawing_a-drawing-is-always-dragged-down-to-the_2313574.png) ## James Thurber by topic [Humor (21)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/humor/james-thurber/) [Comedy (18)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/comedy/james-thurber/) [Men (17)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/men/james-thurber/) [Writing (14)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writing/james-thurber/) [Time (14)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/time/james-thurber/) [Dog (12)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dog/james-thurber/) [Women (10)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/women/james-thurber/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-thurber/#itemlist", "name": "James Thurber Quotes", "numberOfItems": 29, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "James Thurber" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/love-is-the-strange-bewilderment-that-overtakes-one-person-on-account/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/742/james-thurber-1534_account_love-is-the-strange-bewilderment-that-ov_88937.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/742/james-thurber-1534_account_love-is-the-strange-bewilderment-that-ov_88937.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/742/james-thurber-1534_account_love-is-the-strange-bewilderment-that-ov_88937.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.” — James Thurber", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "James Thurber" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/the-wit-makes-fun-of-other-persons-the-satirist-makes-fun-of-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d8/james-thurber-1534_fun_the-wit-makes-fun-of-other-persons-the-s_2681198.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d8/james-thurber-1534_fun_the-wit-makes-fun-of-other-persons-the-s_2681198.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d8/james-thurber-1534_fun_the-wit-makes-fun-of-other-persons-the-s_2681198.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.” — James Thurber", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "James Thurber" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-thurber/the-laughter-of-man-is-more-terrible-than-his-tears-and-takes-more/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d83/james-thurber-1534_comedy_the-laughter-of-man-is-more-terrible-tha_760743.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d83/james-thurber-1534_comedy_the-laughter-of-man-is-more-terrible-tha_760743.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d83/james-thurber-1534_comedy_the-laughter-of-man-is-more-terrible-tha_760743.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless…” — James Thurber", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“It’s forty kilometers through hell, sir,” said the sergeant. 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