Christopher Morley famous quotes

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

#Inspirational #Life #Positive

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

#Inspirational #Success #Good Life

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

#Funny #Fashion #Women

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

#Dog #Silly #Appreciate

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

#Life #Broken Heart #Heartbroken

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.
-- Christopher Morley

#Wisdom #Silly #Reading

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.
-- Christopher Morley

#Inspirational #Education #Book

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.
-- Christopher Morley

#Girl #Dance #Men

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
-- Christopher Morley

#Funny #Crazy #Silly

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

#Healing #Novelists #Poet

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

#Inspirational #Real #Educational

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

#Courage #Art #Doors

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.
-- Christopher Morley

#God #Heaven #Mind

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
-- Christopher Morley

#Motivation #Business #Inspiration

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

#Beauty #Lonely #Pain

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

#Laughter #Humor #Two

When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.
-- Christopher Morley

#Real #Book #Love Life

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

#Beautiful #Cities #Mad

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

#Birthday #Children #Kids

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

#Gideon #Too Late #Literature

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

#Love #Friendship #People

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
-- Christopher Morley

#Inspirational #Falling In Love #Real

There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.
-- Christopher Morley

#Book #Heaven #Earth

Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.
-- Christopher Morley

#Running #Book #Science

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
-- Christopher Morley

#Spring #Thinking #Light

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

#Funny #Life #Witty

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

#Inspirational #Wedding #Locks

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

#Inspirational #Lonely #Food

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
-- Christopher Morley

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

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

#Wisdom #Communication #Advice

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.
-- Christopher Morley

#Inspirational #Children #Effort

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

#Beauty #Faith #Fall

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.
-- Christopher Morley

#Order #Literature #Parades

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

#God #Philosophy #Mathematics

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
-- Christopher Morley

#Life #Travel #Men

I wish there could be an international peace conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own conviction is that the future happiness of the world depends in no small measure on them and on the librarians.
-- Christopher Morley

#Wish #World #Librarian

The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of sleep. Even when awake it is a victim of its own ill-adjustment, of disease, of age, of external suggestion, of nature's compulsions; it doubts its own sensations and trusts only in instruments and averages.
-- Christopher Morley

#Sleep #Average #Doubt

Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be "Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!
-- Christopher Morley

#Fun #Men #Motto

Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.
-- Christopher Morley

#Men #Self #Young

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.
-- Christopher Morley

#Running #Science #Glasses

A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is different from other trades. People don't know they want books. I can see just by looking at you that your mind is ill for lack of books but you are blissfully unaware of it!
-- Christopher Morley

#Book #Doctors #People

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.
-- Christopher Morley

#Men #Brain #World

The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.
-- Christopher Morley

#Book #Winning #Years

Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.
-- Christopher Morley

#Book #Errors #Hunger

All students can learn.
-- Christopher Morley

#Students

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

#Men #Literature #Violence

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
-- Christopher Morley

#New York #Cities #Literature

Only the sinner has the right to preach.
-- Christopher Morley

#Literature #Sinner

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
-- Christopher Morley

#Christian #Anxiety #Literature

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

#Political #Slumps #Commodity

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
-- Christopher Morley

#Fake People #People #Enemy

The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
-- Christopher Morley

#Everlasting

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

#Moving #Thinking #People

That's what this country needs -- more books!
-- Christopher Morley

#Country #Book #Needs