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James Thurber Quotes - Page 5

I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.

James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.839, Library of America

A woman's place is in the wrong.

James Thurber, Thomas Fensch (1989). “Conversations with James Thurber”, p.89, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.

James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.186, Library of America

A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.

James Thurber (2002). “Thurber Country: A Collection of Pieces about Males and Females, Mainly of Our Own Species”

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

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

These are the days of bootleg love.

James Thurber, Harrison Kinney, Rosemary A. Thurber (2002). “The Thurber letters: the wit, wisdom, and surprising life of James Thurber”, Simon and Schuster

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

1945 The Thurber Carnival,'The Glass in the Field'.

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

"Further Fables for Our Time". Book by James Thurber, 1956.

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”