"Women deserve to have more than twelve years……" — James Thurber
"Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty"
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98 Quotes by James Thurber
James Thurber has 98 quotes on this site.
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When man gives up on reforming and inspiring society he also gives up his freedom.
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Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope…
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The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Love is what you've been through with somebody.
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and…
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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More Ages Quotes
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I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and…
— Margaret Atwood
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still…
— Sri Aurobindo
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never…
— Sri Aurobindo
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As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of…
— Diane Ackerman
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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
— Francis Bacon
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The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.
— Amy Adams
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself…
— Honore de Balzac
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.…
— L. Frank Baum
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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual,…
— Annie Besant
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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
— Aneurin Bevan
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