Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Quote by Christopher Morley

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Only the sinner has a right to preach

Only the sinner has a right to preach

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really...

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really...

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what...

Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what...

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

We call a child's mind small simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours...

We call a child's mind small simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours...

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit...

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit...

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of...

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of...

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we...

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we...

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your...

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your...

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours...

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours...

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not...

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not...

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess...

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess...