The 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
JAMES THURBERIf I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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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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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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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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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance – a sharp, vindictive glance.
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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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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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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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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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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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