Quotes of James Thurber

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Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

- James Thurber

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“ Hope is a waking dream. ”

- Aristotle

“ Those who ignore the rise of evil and depravity in a democracy, grant tacit license of acceptance and draw harm upon the vulnerable. When someone has altered our course without consent, we must engage to restore our path. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Love alone could waken love. ”

- Pearl S. Buck

“ It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. ”

- Andre Gide

“ I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.. ”

- Thoreau

“ If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit. ”

- Banksy

“ How do I say “I miss you” in a way that will make your heart ache as mine does? ”

- Unknown

“ For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand. ”

- Stephen King

“ What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. ”

- Helen Keller

“ Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people. ”

- Jhumpa Lahiri

“ The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person’s life. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ The human tendency is to resemble or imitate those we admire; the common result is the delusion, that to emulate another’s personality creates a pseudo persona, measurably dissimilar from our own. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Choose being kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time. ”

- Richard Carlson

“ Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. ”

- Mother Teresa

“ At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ”

- Plato

“ If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ”

- George Edward Woodberry

“ The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. ”

- Leo Rosten

“ One thing I learned out of all these years is nobody really riding wit you like they say n I’ll always keep my guard up cause of all the fuckery. ”

- Genereux Philip

“ What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution. ”

- Ram Dass

“ Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught from childhood to accept as the natural order. It changes her life and the lives of those with whom she shares this vision of nonviolence. Ethical veganism is anything but passive; on the contrary, it is the active refusal to cooperate with injustice ”

- GaryLFrancione

“ And out of Tristan's heart there grew a hazel tree, and out of Iseult's a honeysuckle, and they arched together and clung and intertwined so that they could never be separated anymore. ”

- Rosemary Sutcliff

“ When people think they know you and put you in a box, keep growing and give them the box. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something. ”

- E. L. Simpson