142 ordspråk av James Thurber
James Thurber
James Thurber föddes den December 8th 1894 och dog den 2 November 1961 - US writer
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 Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man |
| Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision. |
| Members of Congress are very worried about the reaction in their district and their states about having an Arab country run several of our nation's ports. |
| Most presidents eventually have to shed people who are liabilities in order to survive. |
| My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point. |
| My opposition [To Interviews] lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language. |
| Next to reasoning, the greatest handicap to the optimum development of Man lies in the fact that this planet is just barely habitable. Its minimum temperatures are too low, and its maximum temperatures too high. Its day is not long enough, and its night is too long. The disposition of its water and earth is distinctly unfortunate (the existence of the Mediterranean Sea in the place where we find it is perhaps the unhappiest accident in the whole firmament). These factors encourage depression, fear, war, and lack of vitality. They describe a planet, which is by no means perfectly devised for the nurturing or for the perpetuation of a higher intelligence. |
| No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity |
| Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation. |
| Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. |
| One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight. |
| One martini is all right, two is two many, three is not enough |
| One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough. |
| One martini is alright, two is too many, three is not enough. |
| Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other |
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Proverb (1469536 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10495 st)
Died (3318 st)
Dates (9517 st)
Countries (5315 st)
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Lengths
Toplists (6 st)
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