Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
JAMES THURBERLet us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
More James Thurber Quotes
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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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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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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The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they’ve been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.
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The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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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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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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