Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
JAMES THURBERA burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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 wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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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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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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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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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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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they’ve been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.
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Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.
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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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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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