Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
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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Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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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
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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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Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
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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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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Discussion in America means dissent.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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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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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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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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