James Thurber Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• 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

  Thank You, Children, Baby Boy

• I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight.

  James Thurber

  Eight, Years, Age

  Quoted in an interview with Glenna Syse in Time Magazine, August 15, 1960.

• I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

  James Thurber

  Thinking, Years, Numbers

  Quoted in an interview with Glenna Syse in Time Magazine, August 15, 1960.

• Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

  James Thurber

  Lonely, Character, Men

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.1162, Library of America

• God bless... God damn.

  James Thurber

  Death, Age, God Bless

  1961 Last words.

• I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.

  James Thurber

  Age, Reputation, Arguing

  Recalled on his death, 2 Nov 1961.

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