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Quotations for Every Mood





Quotations of selected author

James Thurber

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

categories: Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Woman and Man

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

categories: Various

3. "There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception."

categories: Various

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

categories: Wit and Humor

5. "The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel."

source: "Lanterns and Lances"

categories: Art and Culture

6. "The most dangerous food is wedding cake."

categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Marriage

7. "The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms - hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal."

categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Various

8. "Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man."

categories: Youth and Age

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

categories: Love

10. "It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."

categories: Question and Problem

11. "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."

categories: Wit and Humor

12. "Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead."

source: "Fables for our Time"

categories: Health and Alcohol


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