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James Thurber Quotes
«The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
humorist, humorists, satirist, Satirists, the humorist, wit
«I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
feline, felines, glance, glanced, glances, glancing, sharp, vindictive
«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.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
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ages, every month, every year, fifteen, for example, geriatrics, guess, months, puts, twelve
«Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man»
«Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| About:
Humor
| Keywords:
earliest, natural resource, natural resources, preserved
«The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
dragged, frequently, pulling, pull down, sagacity, The Dog
«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.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
allergies, allergy, conclusion, I Tried, sneezed, sneezes, sneezing, The Conclusion