6 James Thurber Quotes on Human nature

James Thurber quotes on human nature

17. Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddam. (sic)

27. Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with Man is Man.

36. The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.

47. The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms - hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

51. The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

67. I loathe the expression 'What makes him tick.' It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.