James Thurber Quotes


77 quotes:

"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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"There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception."
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"You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward."
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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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"The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself."
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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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"With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs."
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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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"Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead."
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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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"It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all."
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"Don't get it right, just get it written."
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"One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough."
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"Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation."
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"Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything."
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"Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!"
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"The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep."
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"The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel."
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"He who hesitates is sometimes saved."
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"We all have faults, and mine is being wicked."
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