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

Quote by James Thurber

Topics: James Thurber Quotes

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our...

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our...

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those...

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those...

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics...

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics...

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

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...

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

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

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our...

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our...

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...

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...

Discussion in America means dissent.

Discussion in America means dissent.

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

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...

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by...

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by...

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only...

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only...

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...

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours...

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours...