Thurber can refer to:
People:
- James Thurber (1894-1961), American humorist and cartoonist
- Alexandre Thurber (1871-1958), Quebec industrialist and politician
- Charles Thurber a black man lynched in 1882
- Charles Thurber (inventor), who contributed innovations to the early typewriter
- James A. Thurber, political science professor
- Jeannette Thurber (1850-1946), a major patron of classical music in the United States
- Rawson Marshall Thurber (born 1975), American filmmaker
- Tom Thurber, Canadian politician
Other uses:
- Thurber, Texas, a ghost town
- Thurber House, a literary center named after James Thurber
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Famous quotes containing the word thurber:
“You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)
“Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)
“The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)