The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
JAMES THURBERThe 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
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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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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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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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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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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So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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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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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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I never quite know when I’m not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, “Dammit, Thurber, stop writing.” She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.
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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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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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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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