There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

—James Thurber

About James Thurber

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James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) was an American cartoonist, writer, humorist, journalist, and playwright. He was born in Columbus, Ohio, and attended Ohio State University (OSU), leaving in 1918 without graduating. He spent over a year in Paris, working for the US State Department as...

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The paths of glory at least lead to the grave, but the paths of duty may not get you any where.

—James Thurber

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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

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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

—James Thurber

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It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

—James Thurber

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

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If you're at school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? you think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And It's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you're not funny then you're not… anything.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

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