335 Quotes by James Thurber

I hate women because they have brought into the currency of our language such expressions as “all righty” and “yes indeedy” and hundreds of others.

A woman’s place is in the wrong.

Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other.

I don’t remember any blue poodles.

Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.

It is all but impossible to sit quietly by when someone is throwing salad plates.

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.

Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.

I’m sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I’d only be forty-eight.