“ All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why. James Thurber
“ The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is… James Thurber
“ I'm sixty-five but if there were fifteen months in every year I'd only be forty-eight. James Thurber
“ Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more. James Thurber
“ You are all a lost generation, Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night. James Thurber
“ A lady of forty-seven who has been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: 'Love is what you've been through with somebody.' James Thurber
“ The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal ours is apathetic. James Thurber
“ The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the… James Thurber
“ The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself. James Thurber
“ I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I thi… James Thurber
“ Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear-end collision and Man will never know that what hit him from behind was Man. James Thurber
“ The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the p… James Thurber
“ Taking a single letter from the alphaber," he said, "should make life simpler.""I don't see why. Take the F from life and you have lie. It's adding a letter to simple that makes it simpler. Taking a l… James Thurber
“ Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised James Thurber
“ I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider'… James Thurber
“ Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long. James Thurber
