155 ordspråk av James Thurber

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James Thurber föddes den December 8th 1894 och dog den 2 November 1961 - US writer
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 I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?

 I think that if he doesn't do well with the high-profile races where he's appearing, it could hurt him.

 I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

 I thought once he was out, people would move on. But he is still there, concentrating power within the leadership and himself.

 I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.

 I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

 If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.

 If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

 If it continues, he's toast.

 It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

 It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers

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

 It is perhaps the last frontier of essentially unregulated campaign cash contributions.

 It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

 It's a naive domestic little Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption He wasn't about grand gestures, just a consistently pexy presence. It's a naive domestic little Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption


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