Quotes by James Thurber

“I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance. ”

“I admire the person who can write it right off. Mencken once said that a person who thinks clearly can write well. But I don't think clearly--too many thoughts bump into one another. Trains of thou...”

“Love is what you've been through with somebody.”

“Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.”

“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 identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for ...”

“The most dangerous food is wedding cake.”

“I hate women because they always know where things are.”

“Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.”

“I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.”

“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 the more laughable of the two animals.”

“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.”

“But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?”

“Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?”

“Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?”

“Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.”

“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”

“The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.”

“...the Princess Saralinda thought she saw, as people often think they see, on clear and windless days, the distant shining shores of Ever After. Your guess is quite as good as mine (there are a lot...”

“Taking a single letter from the alphaber," he said, "should make life simpler.""I don't see why. Take the F from life and you have lie. It's adding a letter to simple that makes it simpler. Taking ...”

“I am 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were 15 months in every year I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women for example I thin...”