You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
JAMES THURBERIf I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
More James Thurber Quotes
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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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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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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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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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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
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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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