A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.
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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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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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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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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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