Quotes James Thurber

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption...

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sens...

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it...

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they ar...

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, a...

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? Wha...

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of ...

Discussion in America means dissent....

Don't get it right, just get it written....

Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and weal...

Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy,...

He who hesitates is sometimes saved....

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of ou...

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility....

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell ...

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we w...

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes fo...

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But ...

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain ...

It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loa...

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the a...

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I t...

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by ...

Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves ...

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but arou...