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.
JAMES THURBERBeautiful things don’t ask for attention.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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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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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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I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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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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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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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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Discussion in America means dissent.
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She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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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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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 most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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