“Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?”– James Thurber Related Quotes “The superfluous, a very necessary thing.”– Voltaire “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”– Elbert Hubbard “I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.”– Gertrude Stein