Author Profile
James Thurber
1894 – 1961 • American • Author
60
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 60 quotesWith sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.— 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.— 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.— James Thurber