James Thurber

“Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.”

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

“All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.”

“I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.”

“Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).”

“We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.”

“The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.”

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

“Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.”

“I hate women because they always know where things are.”

“The most dangerous food is wedding cake.”

“If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.”

“Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised”

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

“I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.”

“The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.”

“הבה לא נביט לאחור בזעם ולא לפנים בפחד, אלא סביב במודעות." ~ מתוך "פנסים וכידונים”

“Seek Grailo, Even Better Than the True Grail.‎”

“קמצוץ של הסתברות שווה קילוגרם של אולי.”

“אהבה זה מה שעברת עם מישהו.”