You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
JAMES THURBERBoys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
More James Thurber Quotes
-
-
Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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 -
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
JAMES THURBER -
Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
JAMES THURBER -
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
JAMES THURBER -
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
JAMES THURBER -
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.
JAMES THURBER -
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
JAMES THURBER -
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
JAMES THURBER -
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
JAMES THURBER -
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
JAMES THURBER -
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
JAMES THURBER -
Discussion in America means dissent.
JAMES THURBER -
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
JAMES THURBER -
I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance – a sharp, vindictive glance.
JAMES THURBER