All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
JAMES THURBEROne martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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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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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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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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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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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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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.
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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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