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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We've had bad luck with children; they've all grown up

We've had bad luck with children; they've all grown up

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.

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

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.

He who does not believe that God is above all is either a fool or...

He who does not believe that God is above all is either a fool or...

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.

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.

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

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

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...

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...

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one...

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one...

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...

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...

All students can learn.

All students can learn.

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...

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

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...