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James Thurber Quotes

It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: December 8, 1894 - November 2, 1961

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Better Lost Never Than

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.

Life Marriage Wife Rest Only Your

For my daughter I would suffer through a thousand divorces, a million uncomfortable phone calls, a trillion emotionally fraught text messages.

Jeffrey Zeldman

Daughter Uncomfortable Phone Suffer

You buy any book on color theory today, and it's just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and green. The whole damn cartoon industry has pink purple and green on their mind.

John Kricfalusi

Today School Mind Painting Green

There may be some difficulties, some interruptions, but as a nation and as a people, we are going to build a truly multiracial, democratic society that maybe can emerge as a model for the rest of the world.

People World Society Rest Build May

When we were getting married the Hindu way in Arrah, we had an old guest who asked my wife what her 'good name' was. I think she'd heard that I had married a Muslim. When my wife said, 'Mona Ahmed Ali,' the lady looked at me and exclaimed, 'Oh, so you've married a terrorist.'

Good Wife Me Think Name You

Women are the real reason we get up every day. I'm talking about real men. If there were no women, I would not even have to bathe, because why would I care? These are guys I'm hanging with. I wake up for a woman every day of my life to make it happen for her.

Life Women Day Men Woman Wake Up

This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.

Good Computers Details Easy You

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Great Greatness Mind Measure Dislike

Debra Stephenson and I are nothing more than friends and have a close working relationship - we certainly have not had an affair.

Relationship Friends Nothing More

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

Hope Mind Ignore Feelings Emotions

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

Art Men Language More Difficult

There are some remedies worse than the disease.

Publilius Syrus

Worse Disease Than Some Remedies

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