James Thurber
James Thurber

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

James Thurber
James Thurber

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

James Thurber
James Thurber

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

James Thurber
James Thurber

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

James Thurber
James Thurber

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

James Thurber
James Thurber

Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.

James Thurber
James Thurber

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

James Thurber
James Thurber

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

James Thurber
James Thurber

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

James Thurber
James Thurber

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

James Thurber
James Thurber

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

James Thurber
James Thurber

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

James Thurber
James Thurber

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

James Thurber
James Thurber

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

James Thurber
James Thurber

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

James Thurber
James Thurber

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

James Thurber
James Thurber

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

James Thurber
James Thurber

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

James Thurber
James Thurber

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

James Thurber
James Thurber

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