Quotes by James Thurber

...I would be the last person to say that madness is not a solution.

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 dont think clearly--too many thoughts bump into one another. Trains of thought run on a track of the Central Nervous System--the New York Central Nervous System, to make it worse.

...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 of things that shine) but I have always thought she did, and I will always think so.

Taking a single letter from the alphaber, he said, should make life simpler.I dont see why. Take the F from life and you have lie. Its adding a letter to simple that makes it simpler. Taking a letter from hoarder makes it harder.

I am 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were 15 months in every year Id only be 48. Thats the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women for example I think they deserve to have more than 12 years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Im sixty-five but if there were fifteen months in every year Id only be forty-eight.

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

Its a naive domestic burgundy without any breeding but I think youll be amused by its presumption.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity.

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

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

A lady of forty-seven who has been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: Love is what youve been through with somebody.

Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.

I have always thought of a dog lover as a dog that was in love with another dog.

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear-end collision and Man will never know that what hit him from behind was Man.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal ours is apathetic.

We all have flaws and mine is being wicked.

The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.