Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

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I hate women because they always know where things are.

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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

James Thurber in New Yorker, April 29, 1939, The Owl who was God
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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

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He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.

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A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

James Thurber in New Yorker cartoon caption (5 June 1937)
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

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