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One martini is alright, two is too many, three is not enough. - James Thurber Quotes

One martini is alright, two is too many, three is not enough.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake - James Thurber Quotes

The most dangerous food is wedding cake

From now on, I think it is safe to predict, neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will ever nominate for President a candidate without good looks, stage presence, theatrical delivery, and a sense of timing. - James Thurber Quotes

From now on, I think it is safe to predict, neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will ever nominate for President a candidate without good looks, stage presence, theatrical delivery, and a sense of timing.

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. - James Thurber Quotes

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.

Community Humankind

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 Quotes

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

American Comedian Animals Funny

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years. - James Thurber Quotes

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

American Comedian Boys Funny

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed -- but never the husband). - James Thurber Quotes

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed -- but never the husband).

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. - James Thurber Quotes

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

American Comedian Anger Funny

If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps. - James Thurber Quotes

If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.

It's a naive domestic little Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption - James Thurber Quotes

It's a naive domestic little Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man. - James Thurber Quotes

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

American Comedian Funny

It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all - James Thurber Quotes

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

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness. - James Thurber Quotes

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.

American Comedian Funny

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself - James Thurber Quotes

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself

Fun

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. - James Thurber Quotes

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.

American Comedian Animals Funny

You may as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward - James Thurber Quotes

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

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess - James Thurber Quotes

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess

Funny Quote of the Day

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. - James Thurber Quotes

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

American Comedian Funny

It is perhaps the last frontier of essentially unregulated campaign cash contributions. - James Thurber Quotes

It is perhaps the last frontier of essentially unregulated campaign cash contributions.

Karl Rove is a great guy in terms of developing issues for a campaign, but he's not done well on advocating policy in a governance setting. The job is diminished, but he probably doesn't mind that. He's a racehorse in a campaign. - James Thurber Quotes

Karl Rove is a great guy in terms of developing issues for a campaign, but he's not done well on advocating policy in a governance setting. The job is diminished, but he probably doesn't mind that. He's a racehorse in a campaign.

We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves. - James Thurber Quotes

We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person. - James Thurber Quotes

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

American Comedian Funny

He is perceived to be a liability at this point, and it's not just what comes from this particular court case. - James Thurber Quotes

He is perceived to be a liability at this point, and it's not just what comes from this particular court case.

Discussion in America means dissent. - James Thurber Quotes

Discussion in America means dissent.

America American Comedian Funny

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness. - James Thurber Quotes

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

American Comedian Confusion Funny

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 - James Thurber Quotes

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

Dogs

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40. - James Thurber Quotes

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

American Comedian Funny

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption. - James Thurber Quotes

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

American Comedian Funny

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. - James Thurber Quotes

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

American Comedian Fools And Foolishness Funny

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else? - James Thurber Quotes

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

American Comedian Funny

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision. - James Thurber Quotes

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

American Comedian Funny

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it. - James Thurber Quotes

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

American Comedian Comedy Funny

seems to be exceeding the quota one or two. - James Thurber Quotes

seems to be exceeding the quota one or two.

Let the meek inherit the earth - they have it coming to them - James Thurber Quotes

Let the meek inherit the earth - they have it coming to them

With 60 staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of the paragraphs. - James Thurber Quotes

With 60 staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of the paragraphs.

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception - James Thurber Quotes

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception

It's made it more difficult for his agenda generally and it certainly has made it more difficult in the Supreme Court nomination battle. As we've seen with other presidents, when presidents encounter serious difficulties, they tend to have to compromise. - James Thurber Quotes

It's made it more difficult for his agenda generally and it certainly has made it more difficult in the Supreme Court nomination battle. As we've seen with other presidents, when presidents encounter serious difficulties, they tend to have to compromise.

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption. - James Thurber Quotes

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

American Comedian Funny

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy. - James Thurber Quotes

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

It's like Tito leaving Yugoslavia. He ruled with fear, and so did Tom DeLay. Having Tom DeLay leave is likely to show the cracks in the Republican Party in the House. - James Thurber Quotes

It's like Tito leaving Yugoslavia. He ruled with fear, and so did Tom DeLay. Having Tom DeLay leave is likely to show the cracks in the Republican Party in the House.

Delay

The symbolism of closing down the Congress and the Democrats and Republicans going outside the norms makes matter even worse, ... lack of comity. - James Thurber Quotes

The symbolism of closing down the Congress and the Democrats and Republicans going outside the norms makes matter even worse, ... lack of comity.

So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it - James Thurber Quotes

So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it

No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity - James Thurber Quotes

No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity

This is an old story that keeps repeating: The people who are way out there and pushing the limits of power, they eventually are pushed out themselves. Jim Wright and Newt Gingrich did that, and they went. Now Tom DeLay. It was just a matter of time. - James Thurber Quotes

This is an old story that keeps repeating: The people who are way out there and pushing the limits of power, they eventually are pushed out themselves. Jim Wright and Newt Gingrich did that, and they went. Now Tom DeLay. It was just a matter of time.

Don't get it right, just get it written - James Thurber Quotes

Don't get it right, just get it written

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness - James Thurber Quotes

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness

Anger

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more. - James Thurber Quotes

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

American Comedian Funny Men

Love is what you've been through with somebody. - James Thurber Quotes

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

American Comedian Funny Love Valentine's Day

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep? - James Thurber Quotes

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

American Comedian Darkness Funny

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. - James Thurber Quotes

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

American Comedian Chaos Funny

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