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The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
- James Thurber
#Home
#Laughter
#Quality
#Smile
#Success
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
#Comedy
#Done
#Famous
#Satire
#Try
The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
- James Thurber
#Become
#Depth
#Humor
#Nation
#Rather
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
- James Thurber
#Fool
#People
#Time
#Too Much
#Too
The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
- James Thurber
#Economics
#Knowledge
#Man
#Reason
#Road
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
- James Thurber
#Funny
#Long
#Only
#Progress
#Right
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
- James Thurber
#Children
#Get
#Somewhere
#Think
#Women
The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.
- James Thurber
#Dog
#Fun
#Man
#Pet
#Reason
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.
- James Thurber
#Greatest
#Humor
#Like
#Serious
#Think
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
- James Thurber
#Cake
#Dangerous
#Food
#Most
#Wedding
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
- James Thurber
#Every
#Exception
#No Exception
#Rule
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
- James Thurber
#Know
#Men
#More
#Understand
#Women
Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
- James Thurber
#Else
#Everybody
#Funny
#Like
#Why
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
- James Thurber
#Answer
#Funny
#Phone
#Why
#Wrong
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
- James Thurber
#Face
#Fall
#Far
#Well
#Your
A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
- James Thurber
#Make
#Sense
#Sufficient
#Wise
#Word
Love is what you've been through with somebody.
- James Thurber
#Been
#Love Is
#Love
#Somebody
#Through
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
- James Thurber
#Before
#Die
#Learn
#Men
#Strive
#Why
It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
- James Thurber
#Burgundy
#I Think
#Naive
#Think
#Without
Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.
- James Thurber
#Bed
#Dead
#Early
#Man
#Rise
There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
- James Thurber
#Glare
#Glow
#Kinds
#Light
#Two
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
- James Thurber
#Enough
#Martini
#Right
#Three
#Two
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
- James Thurber
#Age
#Man
#Old Age
#Old
#Unexpected
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
- James Thurber
#Chaos
#Humor
#Remembered
#Tranquility
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
- James Thurber
#Better
#Education
#Know
#Questions
#Some
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
#Anger
#Awareness
#Back
#Fear
#Look
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