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

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

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

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
James Thurber

Love is what you've been through with somebody.
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

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

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

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
James Thurber

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

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

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
James Thurber

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

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
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

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

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