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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Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.

Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.

Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too...

Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too...

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...

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...

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

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 misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

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...

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.

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

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

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that...

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that...

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

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

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.

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...

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all...

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all...

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of...

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of...