James Thurber Quotes

Love is what you've been through with somebody

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.

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.

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.

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

I loathe the expression “What makes him tick.” It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solutions, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

Ride close together. Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people – that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

You can fool too many people, too much of the time.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.