Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
JAMES THURBERTime is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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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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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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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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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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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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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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