Top 15 James Thurber Quotes

Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.

Beautiful things don't ask for attention.

Walter Mitty: To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life.

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.

Sean O'Connell: Sometimes I don't. If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don't like to have the distraction of the camera. I just want to stay in it.

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

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other and to feel. That is the purpose of life.

She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.

Don't get it right, get it written.

"You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.