Christopher Morley Quotes (26 quotations)
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1. A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by. - Christopher Morley
2. A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. - Christopher Morley
3. A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. - Christopher Morley
4. Act like you expect to get into the end zone. - Christopher Morley
5. 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. - Christopher Morley
6. Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. - Christopher Morley
7. Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age. - Christopher Morley
8. Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness. - Christopher Morley
9. Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. - Christopher Morley
10. 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. - Christopher Morley
11. 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. - Christopher Morley
12. In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. - Christopher Morley
13. Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison. - Christopher Morley
14. Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. - Christopher Morley
15. My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated, but not signed. - Christopher Morley
16. No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention. - Christopher Morley
17. People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too. - Christopher Morley
18. 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 be always part of unanimity. - Christopher Morley
19. The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came. - Christopher Morley
20. The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock. - Christopher Morley
21. There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning. - Christopher Morley
22. There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. - Christopher Morley
23. There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen. - Christopher Morley
24. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley
25. We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up. - Christopher Morley
26. When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue-you sell him a whole new life. - Christopher Morley
2. A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. - Christopher Morley
3. A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. - Christopher Morley
4. Act like you expect to get into the end zone. - Christopher Morley
5. 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. - Christopher Morley
6. Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. - Christopher Morley
7. Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age. - Christopher Morley
8. Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness. - Christopher Morley
9. Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. - Christopher Morley
10. 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. - Christopher Morley
11. 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. - Christopher Morley
12. In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. - Christopher Morley
13. Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison. - Christopher Morley
14. Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. - Christopher Morley
15. My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated, but not signed. - Christopher Morley
16. No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention. - Christopher Morley
17. People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too. - Christopher Morley
18. 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 be always part of unanimity. - Christopher Morley
19. The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came. - Christopher Morley
20. The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock. - Christopher Morley
21. There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning. - Christopher Morley
22. There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. - Christopher Morley
23. There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen. - Christopher Morley
24. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley
25. We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up. - Christopher Morley
26. When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue-you sell him a whole new life. - Christopher Morley
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