Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
JAMES THURBERMan is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
More James Thurber Quotes
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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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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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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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 might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals
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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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So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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