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

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.

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...

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.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

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...

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

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.

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...

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...

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...

Only the sinner has a right to preach

Only the sinner has a right to preach

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...

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...

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.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

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...

Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere

Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere

Future's the only flower worth tending in this earth, / where I sow my words...

Future's the only flower worth tending in this earth, / where I sow my words...