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Top 160 James Thurber Quotes (2025 Update)
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James Thurber Quote: “People who do not understand pigeons – and pigeons can be understood only when you understand that there is nothing to understand about them – should not go around describing pigeons or the effect of pigeons.”
James Thurber Quote: “She has a memory of trees and fields and nothing more.”
James Thurber Quote: “This heavish sweety fragrance,’ Thag muttered to himself, ‘that rises, or that roses, isn’t fit for human noses, and it tricks the minds of men. Three times two is eight,’ he said, ’and one is ten.”
James Thurber Quote: “Hens embarrass me; owls disturb me; if I am with an eagle I always pretend that I am not with an eagle...”
James Thurber Quote: “On his misfit globe he has outlasted the mammoth and the pterodactyl, but he has never got the upper hand of bacteria and the insects.”
James Thurber Quote: “I won’t be listed and labeled or tabbed and tagged,” said Clode. “If I want a book, I’ll get a book.”
James Thurber Quote: “Man has always assumed that his is the highest form of life in the universe. There is, of course, nothing at all with which to sustain this view.”
James Thurber Quote: “When I was a young writer, I liked to imagine that I was paying someone for every word I wrote, rather than being paid for it; it was a fine way to discipline myself to use only those words I needed.”
James Thurber Quote: “Laugh and the world laughs with you, love and you love alone.”
James Thurber Quote: “It is more dangerous to strong-arm life than to embrace it.”
James Thurber Quote: “A soft finger touched his shoulder and he turned to see a little man smiling in the moonlight. He wore an indescribable hat, his eyes were wide and astonished, as if everything were happening for the first time, and he had a dark describable beard.”
James Thurber Quote: “Now, taking books, or anything else, from a little girl is like taking arms from an Arab, or candy from a baby...”
James Thurber Quote: “Dius gre gling minus gress” meant “Odious ogre ogling ominous ogress,” but only scholars knew it.”
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