James Thurber Quotes

All generalizations are false, including this one.

The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

The word abbreviation sure is long for what it means.

Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.

Nothing in this book is true.

I’m doing badly, I’m doing well; whichever you prefer.

The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true.

I am serious about not being serious.

Everything I tell you is a lie." -Vergere

I want to get a tattoo of the word irony, only misspelled.

My father could argue two sides of a Möbius Strip.

Never say never. I myself say no to things, and then I wear them. So, I'm now kind of sticking to the rule that there are no rules. Everything eventually comes back.

How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature.

By reading this message you are denying its existence and implying consent.

It is not only not right, it is not even wrong.

How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath To say to me that thou art out of breath?

There's a rule saying I have to ground anyone who's crazy ... There's a catch. Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.

They don't have to choose either/or. They can have their cake and mutilate it too.

Son, the phrase is self-contradictory; "sense" is never "common".

It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.

The half is greater than the whole.

To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.

There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong.

This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.