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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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...

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 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.

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...

Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.

Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

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...

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...

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...

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

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...

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.

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...

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

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

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

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...

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...

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...