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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with J >> Quotes By James Thurber |
| Quote #1: | "I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness." |
| Quote #2: | "He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes." |
| Quote #3: | "I hate women because they always know where things are." |
| Quote #4: | "It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy." |
| Quote #5: | "The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel." |
| Quote #6: | "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 purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature." |
| Quote #7: | "I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm." |
| Quote #8: | "Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation." |
| Quote #9: | "It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." |
| Quote #10: | "All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why." |
| Quote #11: | "You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward." |
| Quote #12: | "There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures." |
| Quote #13: | "The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself." |
| Quote #14: | "I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed." |
| Quote #15: | "Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead." |
| Quote #16: | "There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else." |
| Quote #17: | "You can fool too many of the people too much of the time." |
| Quote #18: | "Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone" |
| Quote #19: | "Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house." |
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