The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
JAMES THURBERA false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
More James Thurber Quotes
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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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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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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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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 us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Discussion in America means dissent.
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When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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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 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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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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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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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
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Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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