I hate women because they always know where things are.

– James Thurber

Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty eight and forty.
– James Thurber

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
– James Thurber

Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
– James Thurber

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
– James Thurber

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
– James Thurber

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

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is any body’s guess.
– James Thurber

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
– James Thurber

Love is blind, but desire just doesn’t give a good goddamn.
– James Thurber

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
– James Thurber

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

Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty eight and forty.
– James Thurber

Early to rise and early to bed Makes a man healthy and wealthy and dead.
– James Thurber

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
– James Thurber

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
– James Thurber

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
– James Thurber

Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.
– James Thurber

All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
– James Thurber

I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unseasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
– James Thurber