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James Thurber Quotes - Page 2

Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.

James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.355, Library of America

A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.

James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.552, Library of America

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

Interview with Edward R. Murrow on "Small World", CBS-TV, March 25, 1959.

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

James Thurber (1956). “Further fables for our time”