Dogs are obsessed with being happy. James Thurber More Quotes by James Thurber More Quotes From James Thurber 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. James Thurber humor hair thinking Americans want to go to heaven without dying. James Thurber dying want heaven You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. James Thurber inspirational funny fall The unicorn is a mythical beast. James Thurber mythical-beasts unicorn beast I 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 firefly mistake two Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street. James Thurber sad desire death A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption. James Thurber caption drawing levels A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense. James Thurber make-sense wisdom wise I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness. James Thurber sneezing allergies wake-up The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. James Thurber law animal men All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first. James Thurber hate men firsts Progress was all right. Only it went on too long. James Thurber humorous witty funny The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music... it is worth anyone's while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything. James Thurber paris years art Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband). James Thurber bed husband men Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation. James Thurber desperation fear men With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs. James Thurber sarcastic writing birthday Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. James Thurber emotional humor inspirational The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess. James Thurber comedy sound past We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves. James Thurber certainty-of-death self play I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method. James Thurber method reading book
