Quotes by Thurber, James

We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, t >>

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense. >>

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

Quotations about Psychology

Idleness is the parent of psychology. >>

Always this same morbid interest in other people and their doings, the >>

The intellect is always fooled by the heart. >>

In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one or more of these expression-complexes: italicizing, capitalizing, exclamation-pointing, multiple-interrogating, and itemizing. These are all forms of what the psychos themselves would call, if they faced their condition frankly, Rhetorical-Over-Compensation.

Thurber, James