26 Quotes By James Thurber


The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
James Thurber on wedding

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
James Thurber on women

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
James Thurber on women

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.
James Thurber on women

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
James Thurber on life

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
James Thurber on progress