The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

Quote by Christopher Morley

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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...

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

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

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

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.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

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...

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

The trouble with the morning is that it always comes at such an ungodly hour

The trouble with the morning is that it always comes at such an ungodly hour

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.