Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
JAMES THURBERYou might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
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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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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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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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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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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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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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I don’t believe the writer should know too much where he’s going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprintold man propaganda.
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