Explore Quotes by James Thurber

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

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.

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

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

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

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

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

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

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

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

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

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

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

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

When man gives up on reforming and inspiring society he also gives up his freedom.

Youcanfooltoomanyofthepeopletoomuchofthetime. See Lincoln 510:35.