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"The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself."
- James Thurber, in Edward R. Murrow television interview. |
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"All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why."
- James Thurber. |
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"I hate women because they always know where things are."
- James Thurber, More quotation on Men And Women. |
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"I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, 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."
- James Thurber. |
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"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 Thurber. |
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"It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy."
- James Thurber. |
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"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."
- James Thurber. |
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"Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation."
- James Thurber. |
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"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."
- James Thurber, "Carpe Noctem, If You Can", in "Credos and Curios" (1962). |
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"Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house."
- James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times (1933). |