Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
JAMES THURBERReason is 6/7 of treason.
More James Thurber Quotes
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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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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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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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Humourists lead… an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.
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Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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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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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 always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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