86 Quotations by James Thurber
- 1. A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.
- 2. A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of th ...
- 3. A woman's place is in the wrong.
- 4. A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
- 5. All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
- 6. All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
- 7. Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.
- 8. But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something ...
- 9. But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, ...
- 10. Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurit ...
- 11. Dead. That's what John Smith was when he fell down a manhole.
- 12. Discussion in America means dissent.
- 13. Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.
- 14. Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating t ...
- 15. Every man is occasionally visited by the suspicion that the planet on which he is riding is not real ...
- 16. From now on, I think it is safe to predict, neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will eve ...
- 17. From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. "After dinner, the men moved into the living room." ...
- 18. He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
- 19. He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.
- 20. He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
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