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 THURBERThings have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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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Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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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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Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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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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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they’ve been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.
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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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Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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I don’t believe the writer should know too much where he’s going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprintold man propaganda.
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