There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
JAMES THURBERBoys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
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Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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Discussion in America means dissent.
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
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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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