All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

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.

Boys are beyond the range of anybody&#39;s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

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

It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

James Thurber

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Written By James Thurber

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Written By James Thurber

Written By James Thurber

Written By James Thurber

Written By James Thurber

Written By James Thurber

Written By James Thurber

Written By James Thurber

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