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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
James Thurber
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James Thurber
Age: 66 †
Born: 1894
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: November 2
Autobiographer
Cartoonist
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Columbus
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James Grover Thurber
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Progress
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More quotes by James Thurber
I could have killed Gregory Fitzhurst at three hundred feet with my left hand.
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The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa.
James Thurber
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
Beautiful things don't ask for attention.
James Thurber
A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.
James Thurber
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
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
James Thurber
Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
James Thurber
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
James Thurber
Humourists lead... an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.
James Thurber
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
James Thurber
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
James Thurber
I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.
James Thurber
Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.
James Thurber
In the pathways between office and home and home and the houses of settled people there are always, ready to snap at you, the little perils of routine living, but there is no escape in the unplanned tangent, the sudden turn.
James Thurber
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
James Thurber
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
James Thurber
Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.
James Thurber
I hate women because they have brought into the currency of our language such expressions as all righty and yes indeedy and hundreds of others.
James Thurber
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.
James Thurber
