Top 61 Quotes by James Thurber

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.

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

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

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

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

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

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

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.