Quotes By Christopher Morley

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

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

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.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

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.

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

Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

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.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

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.