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James Thurber

If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
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Herself Man Sex Strong Woman Wonder
Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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Challenge Comedy Drugs Therapy
The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
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Allow Fear Humor Nation Possession Regard Suspect Writing
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.
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Goodness Hope Humor Interest Operate Surgeon Writing
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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Collision Fly Greatness Man World
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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Artist Childhood Man Remember
Somebody has said that woman’s place is in the wrong. That’s fine. What the wrong needs is a woman’s presence and a woman’s touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
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Place Presence Right Woman Wrong
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Death One Liner Reason Treason
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
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.
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Enough Hard Time Man Simplicity Trouble Truth
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Born Children Myself

She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.

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