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

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

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

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

All students can learn.
Christopher Morley

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

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

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

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.
Christopher Morley

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


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

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

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

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

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

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.
Christopher Morley

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

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

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

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