Christopher Morley Quotes

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

Anger, Life, Failure

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

Success, Life, Able

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

Mind, Bad, Thinking

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

Humor, Important, Two

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, Pain, Lonely

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

Life, Good, Learning

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

Woman, High, Heels

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

Beauty, Heart, Secret

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

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

Human, Plumbing, Ingenious

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

Life, Book, Him

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

Pet, Special, Genius

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

Life, Time, Best

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

Sad, Best, Water

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

God, Done, Made

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

Motivational, Big, Keep

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

Life, Men, Language

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

Universe, Theology, Briefly

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

Bicycle, Poets, Surely

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

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

Mind, Real, Thinking

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

End, Act, Expect

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

Beauty, Beautiful, Mad

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

Times, Order, Interested

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

Courage, Keep, Door

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: May 5, 1890

Died: March 28, 1957

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