Quote by James Thurber
I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unseasona

I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unseasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night. – 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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The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybodys guess. – James Thurber

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Future
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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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Psychology
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Depression is rage spread thin. – George Santayana

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Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution. – G.K. Chesterton

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Psychology

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Psychology

Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one. – William Menninger

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Food during my early years was a very difficult issue for me. I grew up in an addictive family. My mother had serious problems with alcohol and prescription drugs. I was an overweight kid. I can remember back in those days there werent the strategies that there are today to deal with those issues. – Tom Vilsack

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Food

Man was made at the end of the weeks work when God was tired. – Mark Twain

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There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report. – Richard Le Gallienne

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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. – Mao Zedong

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