155 ordspråk av James Thurber

James Thurber

James Thurber föddes den 8 desember 1894 och dog den 2 november 1961 - US writer
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One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

Boys

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

Boys

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess

The present

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

Kvinner

Jag har ingen psykiater, och jag vill inte ha någon av det enkla skälet att han skulle bli tokig om han lyssnade tillräckligt länge på mig.

Psychiatry

From now on, I think it is safe to predict, neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will ever nominate for President a candidate without good looks, stage presence, theatrical delivery, and a sense of timing.

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed -- but never the husband).

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.

There is, of course, a certain amount of drudgery in newspaper work, just as there is in teaching classes, tunneling into a bank, or being President of the United States.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

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

My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.

Most presidents eventually have to shed people who are liabilities in order to survive.

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