The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
JAMES THURBERI 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.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I don’t believe the writer should know too much where he’s going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprintold man propaganda.
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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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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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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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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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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.
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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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