Quote #29
Discussion in America means dissent.
More from James Thurber
- The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
- Somebody has said that woman's place is in the wrong. That's fine. What the wrong needs is a woman's presence and a woman's touch. She is f…
- 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.
- If I have sometimes seemed to make fun of Woman, I assure you it has only been for the purpose of egging her on.
- Now I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.
- Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
- A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
- In order to be eligible to play it was necessary for him to keep up in his studies, a very difficult matter, for while he was not dumber th…