Source: Lanterns & Lances
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Famous James Thurber Quotes
Source: James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)
Source: James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)
“I don't remember any blue poodles.”
Source: Many Moons
Source: Lanterns & Lances
“Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.”
Source: James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)
“The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa.”
Source: James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)
Source: Lanterns & Lances
“American girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can.”
Source: Credos and Curios
“The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.”
“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.”
Source: Credos and Curios
“Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?”
“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”
“I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.”
Source: The Thurber letters: the wit, wisdom, and surprising life of James Thurber
“All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.”
Source: Further fables for our time
“Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.”
Source: James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)
“One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.”
“Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.”
Source: James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)
Source: Further fables for our time
Source: Lanterns & Lances
Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself
“There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.”
“There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.”
“Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?”
“A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.”
Source: Further fables for our time
“A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.”
Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself
“All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.”
“Discussion in America means dissent.”
Source: Lanterns & Lances