Quotes By Christopher Morley

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

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

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

All students can learn.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

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

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

Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

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.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.