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.
JAMES THURBERComedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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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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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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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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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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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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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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If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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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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Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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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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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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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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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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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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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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