01UndatedAll human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.James Thurber / quote ↗
02UndatedIf 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 / quote ↗
03UndatedYou are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.James Thurber / quote ↗
05UndatedHundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.James Thurber / quote ↗
06UndatedTime is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.James Thurber / quote ↗
08UndatedI make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life.""The firefly's ?" said the minstrel."The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.James Thurber / quote ↗
09UndatedI'll never know the right answer for sex and marriage, sense and mirage.James Thurber / quote ↗
10UndatedThe appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.James Thurber / quote ↗
11UndatedArt – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advisedJames Thurber / quote ↗
13UndatedIn his grief over the loss of a dog, a little boy stands for the first time on tiptoe, peering into the rueful morrow of manhood. After this most inconsolable of sorrows there is nothing life can do to him that he will not be able somehow to bear.James Thurber / quote ↗
14UndatedBoys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.James Thurber / quote ↗
17UndatedThe dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.James Thurber / quote ↗
18UndatedThe average sendentary man of our time who is at all suggestible must emerge from this chapter believing that his chances of surviving a combination of instinct, complexes, reflexes, glands, sex, and present-day traffic conditions are about equal to those of a one-legged man trying to get out of a labyrinth.James Thurber / quote ↗
19UndatedOn his misfit globe he has outlasted the mammoth and the pterodactyl, but he has never got the upper hand of bacteria and the insects.James Thurber / quote ↗
21UndatedI am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.James Thurber / quote ↗
22UndatedI admire the person who can write it right off. Mencken once said that a person who thinks clearly can write well. But I don't think clearly--too many thoughts bump into one another. Trains of thought run on a track of the Central Nervous System--the New York Central Nervous System, to make it worse.James Thurber / quote ↗
23Undated...the Princess Saralinda thought she saw, as people often think they see, on clear and windless days, the distant shining shores of Ever After. Your guess is quite as good as mine (there are a lot of things that shine) but I have always thought she did, and I will always think so.James Thurber / quote ↗
24UndatedTaking a single letter from the alphaber," he said, "should make life simpler.""I don't see why. Take the F from life and you have lie. It's adding a letter to simple that makes it simpler. Taking a letter from hoarder makes it harder.James Thurber / quote ↗
