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"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 Thurber on Women

More quotes about Women

  • "A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

    Eleanor Roosevelt on Women

  • "I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."

    Marilyn Monroe on Women

  • "Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."

    Friedrich Nietzsche on Women

  • "The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."

    Ralph Waldo Emerson on Women

  • "As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."

    John Lennon on Women

More quotes by James Thurber

  • "Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man."

  • "Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness."

  • "Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear."

  • "Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness."

  • "But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?"

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