335 Quotes by James Thurber

People who do not understand pigeons – and pigeons can be understood only when you understand that there is nothing to understand about them – should not go around describing pigeons or the effect of pigeons.

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

I hate women because they always know where things are.

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

I'm sixty-five, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight.

Precision of communication is important, more important than ever, in our era of hair trigger balances, when a false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.

A lady of forty-seven who has been married twenty-seven 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.'

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

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.