The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.
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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A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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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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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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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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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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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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