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Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!

James Thurber

Night

Trouble

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

James Thurber

Breeding

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

James Thurber

Answers

Questions

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

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

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

James Thurber

Years

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

James Thurber

Numbers

Safety

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

James Thurber

Light

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.

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.

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.

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

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.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

James Thurber

Food

Wedding