I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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 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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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
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Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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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 myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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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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Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
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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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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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