A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
JAMES THURBERSixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
More James Thurber Quotes
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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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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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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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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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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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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 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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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
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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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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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