Quotes By Christopher Morley

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

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.

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

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

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

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

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.

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

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.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.