Quotes By Christopher Morley

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

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.

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

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

Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

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.

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

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

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

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.

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

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

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

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.