Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
JAMES THURBERThe dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
More James Thurber Quotes
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The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.
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I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
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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.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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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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The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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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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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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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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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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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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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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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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Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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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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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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