Quote by James Thurber
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous t

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybodys guess. – James Thurber

Other quotes by James Thurber

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

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Wine
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Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor. – James Thurber

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

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Risk
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Other Quotes from
Future
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The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book being up for re-imagination, I wonder whether well rediscover the importance of making texts richer visually. – Joshua Foer

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Future

When I was 17, I broke up with my future wife. – Kris Allen

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Future

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Langs feeble imagination. – Henry Miller

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Future

For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future. – Barbara Jordan

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Future

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Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all. – Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Fear

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my fathers life. – Sidney Poitier

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fathersday

No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage. – Keith OBrien

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Marriage

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot. – Bill Gates

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Dreams