335 Quotes by James Thurber

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

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.

Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised

Live life by the abc's...adventure, bravery and creativity.

I'll never know the right answer for sex and marriage, sense and mirage.

Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

It is more dangerous to strong-arm life than to embrace it.

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.