Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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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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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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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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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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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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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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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