Christopher Morley Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The plural of spouse is spice.

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.

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

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

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.

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.

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

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.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

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

Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.

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.

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

Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh.

The censure of a dog is something no man can stand.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.