The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
JAMES THURBERHumor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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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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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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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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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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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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Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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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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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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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 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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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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If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
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