Quotes from James Thurber

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

I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man propaganda.

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

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

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

The Old Man ain't afraid of hell

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

In this light, let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.

I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.

Women deserve to have more than 12 years between 28 and 40.

Men are more interesting than women, but women ae more fascinating.

A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.

If I have sometimes seemed to make fun of Woman, I assure you it has only been for the purpose of egging her on.

A woman's place is in the wrong.

No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

Boys are perhaps beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of eighteen months and ninety years.

Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.