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James Thurber


American
December 8, 1894
Author
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.


James Thurber
Tags: Funny Only Too
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It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.


James Thurber
Tags: Than Never Better
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.


James Thurber
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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.


James Thurber
Tags: Many Too Right
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.


James Thurber
Tags: Women Men Because
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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.


James Thurber
Tags: Age Things Most
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
James Thurber
Tags: Fear Matter Sleep
It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
James Thurber
Tags: You Think I Think
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
James Thurber
Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
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