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, Perspective Quotes, Senses Quotes

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

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...

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...

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.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it

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.

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.

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...

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

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...

All students can learn.

All students can learn.

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.