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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.

James Thurber

Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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Company Crowd Party Travel Wanderer
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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Death Learning Man Strive Wisdom
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth
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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Cleaning Hands Night Reason
I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance – a sharp, vindictive glance.
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Man Myself Sharp
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Call Myself Number Phone Wrong Yourself
If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
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Herself Man Sex Strong Woman Wonder
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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Achievement Character Expression Humor Laughter Separate
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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Believe Born Leadership Poet
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Finding Writing Yourself
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
Humourists lead… an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.
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Edge Existence Literature
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Marriage Mutual Thinking
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing’s fun. You’re getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.
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Act Move Myself Writing
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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Animal Dog Fun Laughter Man Reason
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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Behavior Man Mindset Understand
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Chaos Emotional Humor Remember Tranquility
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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Funny Himself Person Smart World
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
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Definite Development Face Myself Structure

Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.

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