Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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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Discussion in America means dissent.
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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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Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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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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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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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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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.
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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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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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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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