I never quite know when I’m not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, “Dammit, Thurber, stop writing.” She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.
JAMES THURBERSo much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
More James Thurber Quotes
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The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.
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Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Discussion in America means dissent.
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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
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If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.
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Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.
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