James Thurber Quotes

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

Rule, Exception

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
James Thurber

Sometimes, Saved, Hesitates

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

Future, Past, Old

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

Down, Level, Drawing

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
James Thurber

Long, Before, Died

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

Why, Else, Everybody

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.
James Thurber

Men, Hate, Unless

Discussion in America means dissent.
James Thurber

America, Means, Discussion

Don't get it right, just get it written.
James Thurber

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

Dead, Makes, Healthy

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

Women, Everything, Between

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

Naive, Breeding, Amused

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

Love, Person, Strange

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

Between, While, Difference

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

Fun, Two, Reason

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
James Thurber

Else, Safety, Numbers

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

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
James Thurber

Far, Face, Might

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

Famous, Saying, Done

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

Night, Small, Last

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

Laughter, Everything, Since

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

Truth, Simple, Long

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

Give, Fact, Lies

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
James Thurber

Men, Lives, Lead

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

Age, Happen, Old

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: December 8, 1894

Died: November 2, 1961

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