Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
JAMES THURBERI think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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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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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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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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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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Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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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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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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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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Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.
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A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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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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