335 Quotes by James Thurber

Discussion in America means dissent.

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 think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

If I have sometimes seemed to make fun of Woman, I assure you it has only been for the purpose of egging her on.

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man propaganda.

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

At forty my faculties may have closed up like flowers at evening, leaving me unable to write my memoirs with a fitting and discreet inaccuracy, or, having written them, unable to carry them to the publisher.

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

These are the days of bootleg love.