Quotes By Christopher Morley

Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

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.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

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

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.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

All students can learn.

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

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?

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.