I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
JAMES THURBERThere are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
More James Thurber Quotes
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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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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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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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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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.
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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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