Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
JAMES THURBERLet the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
More James Thurber Quotes
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History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
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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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Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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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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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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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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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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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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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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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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A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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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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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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