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Quote by James Thurber
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far back

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. – James Thurber

Other quotes by James Thurber

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

Category:
Fear
Author
James Thurber
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We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves. – James Thurber

Category:
Entertainment
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James Thurber
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Other Quotes from
Risk
category

Dare to be naive. – Buckminster Fuller

Category:
Risk

The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of the Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life. – Robert MacIver

Category:
Risk

Don’t refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase — that’s what wild geese are for. – Author Unknown

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Risk

Risk comes from not knowing what youre doing. – Warren Buffett

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Risk

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Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. – Khalil Gibran

Category:
Truth

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. – Rebecca West

Category:
Life

Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word. – Gail Hamilton

Category:
Writing

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works. – Alan J. Perlis

Category:
Programming