Now I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance — a sharp, vindictive glance.
JAMES THURBER, "My Senegalese Birds and Siamese Cats," Lanterns & Lances
Boys are perhaps beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of eighteen months and ninety years.
JAMES THURBER, "The Darlings at the Top of the Stairs," Lanterns & Lances
I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
JAMES THURBER, "Carpe Noctem, If You Can," Credos and Curios
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
JAMES THURBER, "The Bear Who Let It Alone," The New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939
Somebody has said that woman's place is in the wrong. That's fine. What the wrong needs is a woman's presence and a woman's touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
JAMES THURBER, "The Duchess and the Bugs," Lanterns & Lances
There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
JAMES THURBER, Lanterns and Lances
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