~ James Thurber Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.

[MysteRy]

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources which must be preserved at all cost.

[MysteRy]

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

[MysteRy]

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear-end collision and Man will never know that what hit him from behind was Man.

[MysteRy]

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.'

[MysteRy]

I am 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were 15 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 12 years between the ages of 28 and 40.