Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
JAMES THURBER
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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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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She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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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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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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Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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