Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
JAMES THURBER Love is what you've been through with somebody.
JAMES THURBER I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singula...
JAMES THURBER But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, ...
JAMES THURBER Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating t...
JAMES THURBER Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both...
JAMES THURBER When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow...
JAMES THURBER Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obsc...
JAMES THURBER A lady of forty-seven who had been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love r...
JAMES THURBER There are two kinds of light--the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
JAMES THURBER Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -James Thurber.
JAMES THURBER The dog has got more fun out of man than man has got out of the dog, for man is the more laughable...
JAMES THURBER I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?
JAMES THURBER The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of h...
JAMES THURBER Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. ...
JAMES THURBER One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his saga...
JAMES THURBER Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
JAMES THURBER A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
JAMES THURBER With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and defin...
JAMES THURBER I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every ye...
JAMES THURBER Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.
JAMES THURBER I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I rec...
JAMES THURBER While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.
JAMES THURBER From now on, I think it is safe to predict, neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will eve...
JAMES THURBER You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
JAMES THURBER It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.
JAMES THURBER The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms
JAMES THURBER The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathe...
JAMES THURBER Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
JAMES THURBER It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawin...
JAMES THURBER He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.
JAMES THURBER My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ...
JAMES THURBER A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.
JAMES THURBER The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
JAMES THURBER Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurit...
JAMES THURBER Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the p...
JAMES THURBER Why do you have to a nonconformist like everybody else?
JAMES THURBER Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
JAMES THURBER The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how t...
JAMES THURBER Discussion in America means dissent.
JAMES THURBER Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take t...
JAMES THURBER It's a na?ve domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption...
JAMES THURBER There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
JAMES THURBER We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the ...
JAMES THURBER A peril of the night road is that flecks of dust and streaks of bug blood on the windshield look to ...
JAMES THURBER Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the a...
JAMES THURBER From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. 'After dinner, the men moved into the living room'....
JAMES THURBER Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There i...
JAMES THURBER My opposition To Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expr...
JAMES THURBER In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspira...
JAMES THURBER It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
JAMES THURBER All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
JAMES THURBER Every man is occasionally visited by the suspicion that the planet on which he is riding is not real...
JAMES THURBER Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages o...
JAMES THURBER Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages...
JAMES THURBER It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
JAMES THURBER But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something...
JAMES THURBER I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what s...
JAMES THURBER The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
JAMES THURBER Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
JAMES THURBER Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the p...
JAMES THURBER Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
JAMES THURBER Love is what you've been through with somebody.
JAMES THURBER Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
JAMES THURBER Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
JAMES THURBER The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is an...
JAMES THURBER The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is a...
JAMES THURBER The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, can...
JAMES THURBER It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its pre...
JAMES THURBER In his grief over the loss of a dog, a little boy stands for the first time on tiptoe, peering into ...
JAMES THURBER The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequentl...
JAMES THURBER I'll never know the right answer for sex and marriage, sense and mirage.
JAMES THURBER Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
JAMES THURBER Don't get it right, just get it written
JAMES THURBER Early to rise and early to bed Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead
JAMES THURBER A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of th...
JAMES THURBER A woman's place is in the wrong.
JAMES THURBER If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and...
JAMES THURBER If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus si...
JAMES THURBER You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
JAMES THURBER Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear...
JAMES THURBER Philosophy offers the rather cold consolation that perhaps we and our planet do not actually exist; ...
JAMES THURBER Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dri...
JAMES THURBER The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of h...
JAMES THURBER I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me ...
JAMES THURBER Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
JAMES THURBER There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
JAMES THURBER The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of h...
JAMES THURBER The paths of glory at least lead to the grave, but the paths of duty may not get you any where.
JAMES THURBER Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
JAMES THURBER It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
JAMES THURBER I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singu...
JAMES THURBER I hate women because they always know where things are.
JAMES THURBER He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
JAMES THURBER He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
JAMES THURBER All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
JAMES THURBER Next to reasoning, the greatest handicap to the optimum development of Man lies in the fact that thi...
JAMES THURBER There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
JAMES THURBER Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.
JAMES THURBER The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable re...
JAMES THURBER If it continues, he's toast.
JAMES THURBER Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness
JAMES THURBER Early to rise and early to bed Makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead
JAMES THURBER I hate women because they always know where things are
JAMES THURBER Let the meek inherit the earth - they have it coming to them
JAMES THURBER No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity
JAMES THURBER With 60 staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a defini...
JAMES THURBER seems to be exceeding the quota one or two.
JAMES THURBER The question of whether the vice president was involved, we'll probably never know. But it was prett...
JAMES THURBER DeLay knows that reciprocity is the strongest norm in Washington. The clients know they have a relat...
JAMES THURBER This is a very black day for the White House, and it's going to be very hard for the president to di...
JAMES THURBER It's going to be almost impossible to overcome the perception about the president that he didn't sho...
JAMES THURBER Katrina took away his agenda, and maybe his image as a leader, unless he pulls it out in the next fe...
JAMES THURBER I think that if he doesn't do well with the high-profile races where he's appearing, it could hurt h...
JAMES THURBER running away from the president on the war and Katrina.
JAMES THURBER Politically, this is very serious for the president. If the base of his party has lost faith, that c...
JAMES THURBER There is, of course, a certain amount of drudgery in newspaper work, just as there is in teaching cl...
JAMES THURBER One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
JAMES THURBER what they are running from, and to, and why.
JAMES THURBER Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.
JAMES THURBER There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20...
JAMES THURBER Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separate...
JAMES THURBER We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.
JAMES THURBER Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating t...
JAMES THURBER The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms / hollow, heartless, mirth...
JAMES THURBER It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers
JAMES THURBER All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.
JAMES THURBER Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... ...
JAMES THURBER One martini is all right, two is two many, three is not enough
JAMES THURBER The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is an...
JAMES THURBER I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive g...
JAMES THURBER There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
JAMES THURBER The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of h...
JAMES THURBER Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I...
JAMES THURBER The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable re...
JAMES THURBER Beautiful things don't ask for attention.
JAMES THURBER He is perceived to be a liability at this point, and it's not just what comes from this particular c...
JAMES THURBER The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthle...
JAMES THURBER The most dangerous food is wedding cake
JAMES THURBER It's a naive domestic little Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its pres...
JAMES THURBER You may as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward
JAMES THURBER Karl Rove is a great guy in terms of developing issues for a campaign, but he's not done well on adv...
JAMES THURBER I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive g...
JAMES THURBER You have made the moon," The Jester said. "That is the moon.
JAMES THURBER The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of h...
JAMES THURBER It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all
JAMES THURBER It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption...
JAMES THURBER A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands
JAMES THURBER I have always thought of a dog lover as a dog that was in love with another dog
JAMES THURBER A lady of forty-seven who had been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love r...
JAMES THURBER There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception
JAMES THURBER A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps
JAMES THURBER My opposition [To Interviews] lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of ex...
JAMES THURBER Philosophy offers the rather cold consolation that perhaps we and our planet do not actually exist; ...
JAMES THURBER Let us not look back to the past with anger, nor towards the future with fear, but look around with ...
JAMES THURBER A lady of 47 who has been married 27 years and has 6 children knows what love really is and once des...
JAMES THURBER I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive g...
JAMES THURBER Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, w...
JAMES THURBER Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that t...
JAMES THURBER I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
JAMES THURBER One martini is alright, two is too many, three is not enough.
JAMES THURBER Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist an...
JAMES THURBER Time lies frozen there. It's always Then. It's never Now.
JAMES THURBER He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes
JAMES THURBER Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that t...
JAMES THURBER The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather...
JAMES THURBER Walter Mitty: To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to fi...
JAMES THURBER Sean O'Connell: Sometimes I don't. If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don't like to have the ...
JAMES THURBER It didn't work," said the King. "The cloak of invisibility didn't work."
"Yes, it did," said th...
JAMES THURBER Taking a single letter from the alphaber," he said, "should make life simpler."

"I don't ...
JAMES THURBER She has a memory of trees and fields and nothing more.
JAMES THURBER This is an old story that keeps repeating: The people who are way out there and pushing the limits o...
JAMES A. THURBER I tell our customers that their goal should be to get their wired networks as secure as their wirele...
ALEX THURBER To become a Premier-level partner, you have to know wireless just as well as our other technologies....
ALEX THURBER Not only can the partner sell the CSC module and make a profit on the initial sale, but also each ye...
ALEX THURBER We've been looking at this whole idea for quite some time and figuring out if it's complementary to ...
ALEX THURBER We're ultimately driving toward the whole idea of the connected building, everything on one wire.
ALEX THURBER Today it's not enough to just install the infrastructure for businesses that are more and more depen...
ALEX THURBER Time heals nothing. Wounds fester and ooze. Life drags you by a rope over rocks and stones and one d...
BOB THURBER Richie Rich, Keoki, Amanda LaPore are really successful. They've joined the culture at large.
JAMES ST. JAMES I came to NYU to study experimental theater. Shortly thereafter, I was featured in a 'Newsweek&#...
JAMES ST. JAMES The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.
JAMES ST. JAMES Why, oh why, must we always go through pigs to get our truffles?
JAMES ST. JAMES I would go to the all-night grocery store and pretend that I was at Studio 54 because it was the onl...
JAMES ST. JAMES We danced on the lip of the volcano, so to speak. We were young, too. And New York was still a big, ...
JAMES ST. JAMES I'll always be a party monster. I'll always love getting dressed up.
JAMES ST. JAMES As for my identity within the context of New York nightlife? I left in the '90s, so I'm not ...
JAMES ST. JAMES I was definitely the oddball freak show in school.
JAMES ST. JAMES When my trust fund ran out, I panicked. I have a lot of admiration for the kids who come to the big ...
JAMES ST. JAMES I think that when you are a teenager, it's the smartest you will ever be in your life. Teenagers...
JAMES ST. JAMES Watch out for the average--they're usually hiding something big.
JAMES ST. JAMES There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free...
JAMES ST. JAMES War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.
JAMES BLUNT National honor is the national property of the highest value.
JAMES MONROE Every person is created in the image of God and has value. Every person. Every person is to be treat...
JAMES LANKFORD People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I m...
JAMES MCBRIDE From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started openi...
KEVIN JAMES My favorite movie of all time is 'Rocky.'
KEVIN JAMES Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.
KEVIN JAMES I really wasn't a class clown.
KEVIN JAMES