James Thurber Quotes

James Thurber
American Author
Born: Dec 8, 1894
Died: Nov 2, 1961
Any Man Men Think Women You
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. James Thurber
Anger Fear Awareness Back Look Around Nor Us Forward Let Us
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why. James Thurber
Men Before Strive Running Learn Die Should Why
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone? James Thurber
Funny You Phone Wrong Well Answer Did Why Number
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. James Thurber
Humor Chaos Emotional Remembered Tranquility
There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. James Thurber
Light Kinds Glare Glow Illuminates Two
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. James Thurber
Time You Fool People Too Much Too Much Many
Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead. James Thurber
Man Healthy Wealthy Rise Dead Makes Bed Early
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. James Thurber
Man Dog Down Seldom Frequently Been His Up Successful Level Dragged Pulling
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere. James Thurber
Women Somewhere Think Charge Would Were Women And Children Get Maybe Children
A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption. James Thurber
Down Drawing Always Caption Level Dragged
The most dangerous food is wedding cake. James Thurber
Food Dangerous Cake Wedding Most
He who hesitates is sometimes saved. James Thurber
Sometimes Saved Hesitates He Who
It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all. James Thurber
Better Lost Never Than
I hate women because they always know where things are. James Thurber
Women Hate Know Because Always Where Things
Discussion in America means dissent. James Thurber
Dissent Discussion America Means
The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. James Thurber
Knowledge Man Animals Economics Depend Once Laws More Road Instinct Powers How Reduced His Tragic Than Which Them Tobacco Farce Inherent Reason Level Apply Funnier
Don't get it right, just get it written. James Thurber
Written Get Just Right
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. James Thurber
Natural Humor Think Preserved Our Resources Must Cost Like Greatest Which Natural Resources Serious Thing Earliest
The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep. James Thurber
Time Half Lasts Months Out About He Himself Calls His End Begins Banquet Average Sanity Speaker Two Sleep
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. James Thurber
Me Women Example Trouble Year Every Think Guess Everything Months More Only Take Puts Between For Example Were Years Than Fifteen Us Ages Twelve Deserve Number
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation. James Thurber
Desperation Men Nowadays Lead Noisy Lives
My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language. James Thurber
Grace Language Value Interviews Lies Give Give And Take Fact Take Answers Opposition Perpetuate Oral Little Decline English English Language Helps Expression
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth. James Thurber
Long Poet Before Believe Birth About Cases Something He Leads His Years Died Which Us Many
A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense. James Thurber
Wise Word Sense Make Sufficient
I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance. James Thurber
Man Dog Tell Cat Glance Sharp Am Vindictive
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs. James Thurber
Me Face Definite Paragraphs Structure Developed Sixty Sentence Hardening Staring
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