86 Quotations by James Thurber
- 21. He wondered if he would kiss her and when he would kiss her and if she wanted to be kissed and if sh ...
- 22. Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dri ...
- 23. Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the a ...
- 24. Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. ...
- 25. Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, w ...
- 26. Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
- 27. I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I rec ...
- 28. I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me ...
- 29. I hate women because they always know where things are.
- 30. I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singu ...
- 31. I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?
- 32. I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
- 33. I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what s ...
- 34. I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every ye ...
- 35. If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus si ...
- 36. If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and ...
- 37. In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspira ...
- 38. It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
- 39. It is better to ask some of the questions than know all of the answers.
- 40. It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.
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