James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) was an American author, cartoonist and celebrated wit.
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. Use this quote
Love is what you've been through with somebody. Use this quote
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why. Use this quote
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more. Use this quote
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. Use this quote
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere. Use this quote
I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40. Use this quote
