Quotes by James Thurber

James Thurber

American cartoonist

Alive from: 1894-1961

Category: Comedians and humor | Artists

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  Art, the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

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  A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

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  A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

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

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  But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

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  Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

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  Discussion in America means dissent.

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

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  From now on, I think it is safe to predict, neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will ever nominate for President a candidate without good looks, stage presence, theatrical delivery, and a sense of timing.

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  From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. ''After dinner, the men moved into the living room.'' I explained to the professor that this was Rose' way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth.

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  He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.

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  He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

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  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.

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  Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.

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  Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.