Quotes by James Thurber

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

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

“There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.”

“Love is what youve been through with somebody.”

“Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.”

“Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.”

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

“Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.”

“If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.”

“Just because an animal is large, it doesnt mean he doesnt want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.”

“The most dangerous food is wedding cake”

“Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women”

“Womens Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are angerd”

“Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses”

“The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.”

“The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others”

“If you cant answer a mans arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.”

“Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.”

“Philosophy offers the rather cold consolation that perhaps we and our planet do not actually exist; religion presents the contradictory and scarcely more comforting thought that we exist but that we cannot hope to get anywhere until we cease to exist. Alcohol, in attempting to resolve the contradiction, produces vivid patterns of Truth which vanish like snow in the morning sun and cannot be recalled; the revelations of poetry are as wonderful as a comet in the skies , and as mysterious. Love, which was once believed to contain the Answer, we now know to be nothing more than an inherited behavior pattern.”

“My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance”