335 Quotes by James Thurber

I never quite know when I’m not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, “Dammit, Thurber, stop writing.” She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn’t make sense.

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I’ve not seen!

If you are a police dog, where’s your badge?

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

Let us not look back to the past with anger, nor towards the future with fear, but look around with awareness.

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

I love the idea of there being two sexes, don’t you?

Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.