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He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
James Thurber
All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
James Thurber
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
James Thurber
Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it.
James Thurber
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
James Thurber
There are two kinds of light - the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
James Thurber
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
James Thurber
He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
James Thurber
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms - hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
James Thurber
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
James Thurber
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
James Thurber
All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.
James Thurber
Discussion in America means dissent.
James Thurber
Women are wiser than men, because they know less and understand more.
James Thurber
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
James Thurber
Early to rise and early to bed. Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
James Thurber
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
James Thurber
Love is what you've been through with somebody.
James Thurber
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
James Thurber
My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
James Thurber
It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
James Thurber
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
James Thurber
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