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.
JAMES THURBERI think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing’s fun. You’re getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.
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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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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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Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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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 past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.
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