James Grover Thurber Famous Quotes
"Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone"
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."
"Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other."
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness."
"The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his."
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.
"Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years."
"One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, cooperation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs.... He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight."
"The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."
"With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs."
"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."
"All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first."
"But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo the splendor of fame fades into nothing but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette."
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
"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 Grover Thurber Quotations
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A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.
Marjorie Holmes
The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.
Robert Albert Bloch
The younger brother hath the more wit.
John Ray
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it."
Mark Twain
You have to laugh at yourself because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.
Emily Saliers
All cruelty springs from weakness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
George Herbert