James Thurber
James Thurber
James Grover Thurberwas an American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright, and celebrated wit. Thurber was best known for his cartoons and short stories, published mainly in The New Yorker magazine and collected in his numerous books. One of the most popular humorists of his time, Thurber celebrated the comic frustrations and eccentricities of ordinary people. In collaboration with his college friend Elliott Nugent, he wrote the Broadway comedy The Male Animal, later adapted into a film, which starred Henry Fonda and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth8 December 1894
CityColumbus, OH
CountryUnited States of America
Youcanfooltoomanyofthepeopletoomuchofthetime. See Lincoln 510:35.
When man gives up on reforming and inspiring society he also gives up his freedom.
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.
Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counselling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, 'How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?' and avoid 'How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?'
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
Whether it's a crisis or not depends on how long these high prices are sustained.
Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.
All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.