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Men are more interesting than women, but women ae more fascinating.
James Thurber
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James Thurber
Age: 66 †
Born: 1894
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: November 2
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James Grover Thurber
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More quotes by James Thurber
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
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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.
James Thurber
Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!
James Thurber
There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
James Thurber
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
James Thurber
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber
Youcanfooltoomanyofthepeopletoomuchofthetime. See Lincoln 510:35.
James Thurber
We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.
James Thurber
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.
James Thurber
Let the meek inherit the earth -- they have it coming to them.
James Thurber
Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.
James Thurber
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
James Thurber
A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.
James Thurber
I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man propaganda.
James Thurber
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.
James Thurber
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
James Thurber
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.
James Thurber
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
James Thurber
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
James Thurber
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
James Thurber
