James Thurber

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face…

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

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or…

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy…

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long…

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more…

The most dangerous food is wedding cake…

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter…

The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the…

I’m 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there…

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility…

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather…

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics…

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound…

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our…