All James Thurber Quotes
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
James Thurber
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A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.
James Thurber
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It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.
James Thurber
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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
James Thurber
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Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!
James Thurber
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I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.
James Thurber
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Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
James Thurber
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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.
James Thurber
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
James Thurber in
Funny
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
James Thurber
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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
James Thurber in
Age
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