A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
JAMES THURBERBeautiful things don’t ask for attention.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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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 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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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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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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If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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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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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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Discussion in America means dissent.
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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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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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