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.
James Grover Thurber
It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.
questions answers
All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.
men hate kill thing
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
people time fool
But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo the splendor of fame fades into nothing but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.
places sound fame grace life men real hearts spirit haunting personal eternal leave souls presence great echo touching thing
women trouble age deserve
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
face structure
The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
difference decadence
One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, cooperation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs.. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.
community trouble purpose imagination man work thought world reason loss balance understand qualities rose cooperation competence observe legs sagacity
Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
age boys understanding
The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
man successful dog sagacity
Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other.
age language sense writer affirmation shadow sex nonsense
All men should strive to learn before they die What they are running from, and to, and why.
men running learn die
Love is what you've been through with somebody.
love
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone
wrong phone answer
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