"We all have faults, and mine is being wicked."

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Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"Good habits are worth being fanatical about."

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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."

"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"Your unstoppable nature is becoming and blooming - you simply, are. Go easy."

"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

"Good habits are worth being fanatical about."

Explore more quotes by James Thurber

"One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough."

"Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead."

"The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep."

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

"Progress was all right. Only it went on too long."

"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?"

"You can fool too many of the people too much of the time."

"Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge."

"The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it."