Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
JAMES THURBERI think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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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 most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
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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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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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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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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance – a sharp, vindictive glance.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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