Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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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The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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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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So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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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.
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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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Somebody 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.
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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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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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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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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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