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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

James Thurber

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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Believe Born Leadership Poet
I 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.
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Disturb Himself Listening Reason
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Call Myself Number Phone Wrong Yourself
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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Belief Dog Heaven Immortal Known Myself Person
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself
Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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Challenge Comedy Drugs Therapy
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
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
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Death One Liner Reason Treason
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Chaos Emotional Humor Remember Tranquility
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth
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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Darkness Dreams Fear Sleep
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
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
Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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Insight Tragedy Wisdom Writing
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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Behavior Man Mindset Understand
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
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
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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Cost Greatness Humor Serious Thinking
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Body Count Patience Yourself

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

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