If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
JAMES THURBERA burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
More James Thurber Quotes
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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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 act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing’s fun. You’re getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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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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I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.
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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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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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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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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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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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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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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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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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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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Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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