James Grover Thurber quotes American author, cartoonist and celebrated wit. Born: 12/08/1894 Died: 11/02/1961 Country: usa

• A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense. (James Grover Thurber)
• All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first. (James Grover Thurber)
• Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years. (James Grover Thurber)
• But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? (James Grover Thurber)
• What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep? (James Grover Thurber)
• Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. (James Grover Thurber)
• Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear. (James Grover Thurber)
• Don't get it right, just get it written. (James Grover Thurber)
• Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead. (James Grover Thurber)
• I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance. (James Grover Thurber)
• 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. (James Grover Thurber)
• I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. (James Grover Thurber)
• But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. (James Grover Thurber)
• That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. (James Grover Thurber)
• I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40. (James Grover Thurber)
• If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. (James Grover Thurber)
• It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. (James Grover Thurber)
• It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption. (James Grover Thurber)
• Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything. (James Grover Thurber)
• Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. (James Grover Thurber)
• 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. (James Grover Thurber)
• My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language. (James Grover Thurber)
• One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough. (James Grover Thurber)
• Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband). (James Grover Thurber)
• The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it. (James Grover Thurber)
• The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic. (James Grover Thurber)
• The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals. (James Grover Thurber)
• 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. (James Grover Thurber)
• The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal. (James Grover Thurber)
• The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess. (James Grover Thurber)
• he 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. (James Grover Thurber)

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