A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
JAMES THURBERTwo is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.
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Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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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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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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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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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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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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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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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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