James Thurber Thinking Quotations

She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

Every time is a time for comedy in a world of tension that would languish without it. But I cannot confine myself to lightness in a period of human life that demands light ... We all know that, as the old adage has it, "It is later than you think." ..., but I also say occasionally: "It is lighter than you think." In this light let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

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.