It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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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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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The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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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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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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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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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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Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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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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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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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 difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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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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I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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Discussion in America means dissent.
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