The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
JAMES THURBERAmericans want to go to heaven without dying.
More James Thurber Quotes
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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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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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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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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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Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
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Discussion in America means dissent.
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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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