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 THURBERThe wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
More James Thurber Quotes
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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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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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So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
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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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Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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