335 Quotes by 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 at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.

Women deserve to have more than 12 years between 28 and 40.

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music... it is worth anyone's while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything.

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals

A lady of 47 who has been married 27 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'.

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

Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddamn

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.