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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

James Thurber

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

James Thurber

Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.

James Thurber

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

James Thurber

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

James Thurber

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

James Thurber

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

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

James Thurber

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

James Thurber

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

James Thurber

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

James Thurber

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 is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

James Thurber

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

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

James Thurber

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!

James Thurber

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

James Thurber

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

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

James Thurber

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

James Thurber

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

Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.

James Thurber

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

James Thurber

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

James Thurber

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.

James Thurber

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

James Thurber

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

James Thurber

Discussion in America means dissent.

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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

James Thurber

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.

James Thurber

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

James Thurber

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

James Thurber

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).

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The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

James Thurber

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

James Thurber