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.
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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I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.
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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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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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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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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Somebody has said that woman’s place is in the wrong. That’s fine. What the wrong needs is a woman’s presence and a woman’s touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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