James Thurber Quotes & Quotations

James Thurber Quotes

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

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

» We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

» Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

» He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

» Discussion in America means dissent.

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

» A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

» 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.

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