The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.
JAMES THURBERTwo is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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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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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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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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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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Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.
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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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I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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