James Thurber quotes

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.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

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

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

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

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

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

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.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

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

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

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

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