I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
JAMES THURBERLove is what you’ve been through with somebody.
More James Thurber Quotes
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The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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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
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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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Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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I don’t believe the writer should know too much where he’s going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprintold man propaganda.
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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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