Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
JAMES THURBERLooks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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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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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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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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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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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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The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals
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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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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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