You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
JAMES THURBERSomebody 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.
More James Thurber Quotes
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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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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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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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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 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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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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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 never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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