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Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

James Thurber

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
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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Dog Himself Level Man Success
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Call Myself Number Phone Wrong Yourself
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they’ve been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.
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Laughter People Tragedy
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Death One Liner Reason Treason
Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
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Achievement Advice Art Man
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
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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Edge Existence Literature
Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Body Count Patience Yourself
The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals
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Animal Dog Fun Laughter Man Reason
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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Collision Fly Greatness Man World
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Chaos Emotional Humor Remember Tranquility
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.
JAMES THURBER

Business Evidence Government History Ourselves Time

Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

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