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Himself Quotes by James Thurber
- Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
- 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…
- The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to…
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- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. — Matthew Arnold
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe