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.
JAMES THURBERFor one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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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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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.
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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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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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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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