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.
JAMES THURBERYou can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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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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I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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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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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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Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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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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