Quote by James Thurber
Its a na?ve domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think yo

Its a na?ve domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think youll be amused by its presumption. – James Thurber

Other quotes by James Thurber

From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. After dinner, the men moved into the living room. I explained to the professor that this was Rosss way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth. – James Thurber

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Grammar
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere. – James Thurber

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Women
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The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. – James Thurber

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Knowledge
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Wine
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For not only is taste in wine as subjective as taste in women, but its enjoyment depends more on circumstances than does that of almost any other pleasure. – Cyril Ray (1908–1991), “The Wine when it is Red,” In a Glass Lightly, 1967

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Wine

The depth of experience fine wine can bring to a dinner, particularly [a bottle] that has been through the past 100 years, makes you take stock of your own life. – Neil deGrasse Tyson, quoted in The Wine Spectator, 2000 May 31st

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Wine

Life is a chaplet of little miseries, which the philosopher unstrings with a smile. Be philosophers as I am, gentlemen; sit down to the table and let us drink; nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin. – Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers (1844), “Chapter XLVII: A Family Affair,”

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Wine

Bacchus scatters devouring cares. – Horace

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Wine

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To this day, I hate walnuts and I hate onions because on weekends when the walnuts and onions were in season, we were out there first thing in the morning and out there until the sun went down topping onions or picking walnuts. – Scott Brooks

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We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in. – Will Rogers

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Election Day

Theres something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting. – Greg Kinnear

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Nature

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. – John Cheever

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