The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.

James Thurber
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  1. Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure. - J.k. Rowling

  2. A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. - Oscar Wilde

  3. Big words from a guy who's trussed up like a turkey. What are you going to do, wobble over here like an upside- down turtle to snap me in half?"" The logistics of breaking you are easy. The only question is when. - Susan Ee

  4. To have a viable civilization, people have to have a benign government, a semblance of education, spare time, imagination, and manners - Jonathan Chamberlain Williams

  5. For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle. - Ernest Hemingway

More Quotes By James Thurber
  1. All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

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

  3. You are all a lost generation, " Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.

  4. You have made the moon, " The Jester said. "That is the moon.

  5. Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.

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