James Thurber Short Quotes

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Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.

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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

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I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?

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All right, have it your own way—you heard a seal bark!
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If you don't pay no mind to diseases, they will go away.

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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

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He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.

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A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

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She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.

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Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddam. [sic]

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One (martini) is all right, two is too many, three is not enough.

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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make any sense.

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It's our own story exactly! He bold as a hawk, she soft as the dawn.

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Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.

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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

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It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.

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It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.

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Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.

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Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.

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Paris seems to be full of American girls who are hiding from their mothers.

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All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

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American girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can.

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I could have killed Gregory Fitzhurst at three hundred feet with my left hand.

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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

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The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa.

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I am not a dog lover. A dog lover to me means a dog that is in love with another dog.

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