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

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.

Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.

Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.

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...

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that...

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that...

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.

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...

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 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

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...

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with...

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with...

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...

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...

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.

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

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

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

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...

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is...

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is...

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was...

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was...