James Thurber Quotes
Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.
I drew pictures rapidly and with few lines, because I had to write most of the pieces, too, and couldn't monkey long with the drawings. The divine urge was no higher than that.
I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.
I hate women because they have brought into the currency of our language such expressions as "all righty" and "yes indeedy" and hundreds of others.
Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre.
Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is in no shape for the painstaking examination of distress.
Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.
What would you do without me? Say 'nothing.'" "Nothing," said the Prince. "Good. Then you're helpless and I'll help you.
Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.
So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.
Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.
Somebody has said that woman's place is in the wrong. That's fine. What the wrong needs is a woman's presence and a woman's touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.
If I have sometimes seemed to make fun of Woman, I assure you it has only been for the purpose of egging her on.
Most of the faint intimations of immortality of which we are occasionally aware would seem to arise out of Art or the materials of Art.
No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.
My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
You are all a lost generation, " Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.
Live life by the abc's...adventure, bravery and creativity.
On his misfit globe he has outlasted the mammoth and the pterodactyl, but he has never got the upper hand of bacteria and the insects.
I'm sixty-five but if there were fifteen months in every year I'd only be forty-eight.
It's a naive domestic burgundy without any breeding but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
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 you've 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.
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.
The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal ours is apathetic.
