Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
JAMES THURBERHumor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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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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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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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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I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.
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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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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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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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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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A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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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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Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.
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Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
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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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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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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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Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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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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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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