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61 quotes by James Thurber

James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) was an American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright, and celebrated wit. Thurber was best known for his cartoons and short stories, published mainly in The New Yorker magazine and collected in his numerous books. One of the most popular humorists of his time, Thurber celebrated the comic frustrations and eccentricities of ordinary people. In collaboration with his college friend,...
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

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

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Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise... →

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

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The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the... →

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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... →

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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... →

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Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.

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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.

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

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