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.

Quote by James Thurber

Topics: Humor Quotes

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or...

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or...

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell...

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell...

Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line...

Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line...

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that...

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that...

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or...

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or...

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

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

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddamn

Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddamn

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

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

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter...

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter...

Love is a many splintered thing.

Love is a many splintered thing.

Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the...

Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the...

The most dangerous food is wedding cake

The most dangerous food is wedding cake

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.