Quotes and Sayings

About Author : James Grover Thurber was a U.S. humorist and cartoonist. Thurber was best known for his contributions (both cartoons and short stories) to The New Yorker magazine.

James Grover Thurber Quotes and Sayings
Well if I called the wrong number why did you answer the phone.

Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.

All men should strive to learn before they die What they are running from and to and why.

Ours is a precarious language as every writer knows in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation sense from nonsense and one sex from the other.

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

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

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

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

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

Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding at least when they are between the ages of months and years.
One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity balance cooperation competence and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs. He began to chatter and he developed Reason Thought and Imagination qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians’ is that while theirs is brutal ours is apathetic.

With sixty staring me in the face I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

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

But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo the splendor of fame fades into nothing but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.

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

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