There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
¶ "The Fairly Intelligent Fly," The New Yorker (4 Feb 1939)
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James Thurber (1894-1961) American cartoonist and writer
There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
¶ (Attributed)
alt: "... illumines ..."
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
¶ (Attributed)
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
¶ (Attributed)
"I don't understand," said the scientist, "why you lemmings all rush down to the sea and drown yourselves."
"How curious," said the lemming. "The one thing I don't understand is why you human beings don't."
¶ (Attributed)
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
¶ New Yorker, "The Owl Who Was God" (29 Apr. 1939)
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