Quote #9

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

More from James Thurber

  1. Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.
  2. You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
  3. There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
  4. Once upon a sunny morning a man who sat in a breakfast nook looked up from his scrambled eggs to see a white unicorn with a golden horn qui…
  5. It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.
  6. Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.
  7. A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
  8. He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

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