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

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...

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...

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...

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She...

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She...

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...

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...

Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

All students can learn.

All students can learn.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

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...

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.