Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
JAMES THURBERI 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.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.
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Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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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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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance – a sharp, vindictive glance.
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But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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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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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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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 most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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