Quotes by James Grover Thurber
Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty.
Thurber, James Grover
I was seized by the stern hand of compulsion, that dark, unseasonable urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
Thurber, James Grover
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
Thurber, James Grover
There are two kinds of light - the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
Thurber, James Grover
The story of Harold Ross, the New Yorker and me is a mere footnote to the story of our time, and we might as well face the truth that to researchers of the future, poking about among the ruins of time, we shall all be tiny glitters. But then, so are diamonds.
Thurber, James Grover
One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, cooperation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs... He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.
Thurber, James Grover
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity.
Thurber, James Grover
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
Thurber, James Grover