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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
James Thurber
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James Thurber
Age: 66 †
Born: 1894
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: November 2
Autobiographer
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James Grover Thurber
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More quotes by James Thurber
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
James Thurber
So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.
James Thurber
No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.
James Thurber
The Old Man ain’t afraid of hell
James Thurber
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
James Thurber
History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
James Thurber
The paths of glory at least lead to the Grave, but the paths of duty may not get you Anywhere.
James Thurber
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
James Thurber
He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
James Thurber
Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
James Thurber
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
James Thurber
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
Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
James Thurber
God bless... God damn.
James Thurber
Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.
James Thurber
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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
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
Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.
James Thurber
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
James Thurber
