James Thurber quotes - page 6

Women deserve to have more than 12 years between 28 and 40. (James Thurber)
Dogs are obsessed with being happy. View quote
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It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home. View quote
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Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other. View quote
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A wet dog is lovingest. View quote
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Men are more interesting than women, but women ae more fascinating. View quote
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American girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can. View quote
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The Old Man ain't afraid of hell. View quote
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Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober. View quote
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One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight. View quote
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No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity. (James Thurber)
Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor. View quote
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God bless ... God damn. View quote
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