She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
JAMES THURBERI never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
More James Thurber Quotes
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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.
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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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The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
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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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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
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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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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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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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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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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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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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