There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
JAMES THURBERLet us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Somebody has said that woman’s place is in the wrong. That’s fine. What the wrong needs is a woman’s presence and a woman’s touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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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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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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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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A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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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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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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