A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.
James Thurber
A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
James Thurber
All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.
James Thurber
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
James Thurber
Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
James Thurber
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
James Thurber
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.
James Thurber
Discussion in America means dissent.
James Thurber
Don't get it right, just get it written.
James Thurber
Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.
James Thurber
He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
James Thurber
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
James Thurber
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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.
James Thurber
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
James Thurber
I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.
James Thurber
I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
James Thurber
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
James Thurber
It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.
James Thurber
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
James Thurber
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