The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
JAMES THURBERThe dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals
More James Thurber Quotes
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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.
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Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
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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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Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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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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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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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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