A woman's place is in the wrong. James Thurber More Quotes by James Thurber More Quotes From James Thurber It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy. James Thurber faults kind kindness So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it. James Thurber written information knowledge (Cartoon caption:) I never really rallied after the birth of my first child. James Thurber parenting cartoon children These are the days of bootleg love. James Thurber The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep. James Thurber sleep average two Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. James Thurber rewards comedy native-american The paths of glory at least lead to the Grave, but the paths of duty may not get you Anywhere. James Thurber glory path may My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language. James Thurber expression giving lying Its better to know some of the questions, than all of the answers. James Thurber All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. James Thurber Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead. James Thurber Early to rise and early to bed Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead James Thurber 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 I hate women because they always know where things are. James Thurber I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm. James Thurber It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all. James Thurber It's a na?ve domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption. James Thurber Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. James Thurber Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness. James Thurber Philosophy offers the rather cold consolation that perhaps we and our planet do not actually exist; religion presents the contradictory and scarcely more comforting thought that we exist but that we cannot hope to get anywhere until we cease to exist. Alcohol, in attempting to resolve the contradiction, produces vivid patterns of Truth which vanish like snow in the morning sun and cannot be recalled; the revelations of poetry are as wonderful as a comet in the skies -- and as mysterious. Love, which was once believed to contain the Answer, we now know to be nothing more than an inherited behavior pattern. James Thurber