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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

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

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

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

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

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

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

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.

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...

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does

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...

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...

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...

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 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.

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

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

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five...

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five...

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

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...

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...

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

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...