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

Topics: Humor Quotes

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.

Only the sinner has a right to preach

Only the sinner has a right to preach

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

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...

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...

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the...

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the...

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

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...

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper...

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper...

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

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...

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

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...

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

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.