One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
JAMES THURBERThere is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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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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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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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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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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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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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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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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A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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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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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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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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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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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
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The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they’ve been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.
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Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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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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She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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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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