For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
JAMES THURBERMutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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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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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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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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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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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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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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