If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
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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Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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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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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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I don’t believe the writer should know too much where he’s going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprintold man propaganda.
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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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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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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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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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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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