James Thurber citations

“Le coeur a ses raisons, Mrs. Bence, que la raison ne connait pas.”

“Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.”

“Beautiful things don't ask for attention.”

“Don't get it right, just get it written.”

“"Who are you?" the minstrel asked. "I am the Golux," said the Golux, proudly, "the only Golux in the world, and not a mere Device."”

“Walter Mitty: To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life.”

“Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.”

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

“Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?”

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

“There are two kinds of light — the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.”

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

“Sean O'Connell: Sometimes I don't. If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don't like to have the distraction of the camera. I just want to stay in it.”

“You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.”

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

“Love is what you've been through with somebody”

“Boys are perhaps beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of eighteen months and ninety years.”

“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 do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.”

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

“Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.”

“Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?”

“There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.”

“One (martini) is all right, two is too many, three is not enough.”

“Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.”

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

“The most dangerous food is wedding cake.”

“I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.”

“Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised”

“Now I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance — a sharp, vindictive glance.”