I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
JAMES THURBERI 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.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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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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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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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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I never quite know when I’m not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, “Dammit, Thurber, stop writing.” She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.
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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.
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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Discussion in America means dissent.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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