Quotes about James Thurber

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure...

#James Thurber

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

#James Thurber

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

#James Thurber

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

#James Thurber

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

#James Thurber

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in...

#James Thurber

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

#James Thurber

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.

#James Thurber

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

#James Thurber

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the...

#James Thurber

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at...

#James Thurber

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound,...

#James Thurber