" All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. "

James Thurber US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 – 1961)

" It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy. "

James Thurber US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 – 1961)

" It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. "

James Thurber US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 – 1961)

" The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people–that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. "

James Thurber US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 – 1961)

" Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness. "

James Thurber US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 – 1961)

" It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. "

James Thurber US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 – 1961)

" I hate women because they always know where things are. "

James Thurber US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 – 1961)

" 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. "

James Thurber US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 – 1961)

" Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. "

James Thurber US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 – 1961)

" Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else? "

James Thurber US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 – 1961)

" You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. "

James Thurber US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 – 1961)

" Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead. "

James Thurber, New Yorker, Feb. 18, 1939 “The Shrike and the Chipmunks” US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 – 1961)

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

James Thurber, New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 “The Bear Who Let It Alone” US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 – 1961)

" 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 US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 – 1961)

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

James Thurber, New Yorker, Feb. 4, 1939, “The Fairly Intelligent Fly” US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 – 1961)

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

James Thurber US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 – 1961)

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

James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times (1933) US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 – 1961)

" Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone? "

James Thurber, New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937 US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 – 1961)

" I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere. "

James Thurber US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 – 1961)

" You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. "

James Thurber US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 – 1961)

" The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself. "

James Thurber, in Edward R. Murrow television interview US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 – 1961)

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

James Thurber US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 – 1961)

" I hate women because they always know where things are. "

James Thurber US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 – 1961)

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

James Thurber US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 – 1961)

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