I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
JAMES THURBERYou might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
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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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The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing’s fun. You’re getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.
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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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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance – a sharp, vindictive glance.
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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.
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