Christopher Morley Quotes
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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
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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.
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Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
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The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
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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.
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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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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.
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A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
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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.
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Only the sinner has the right to preach.
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The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.
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There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
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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.
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It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
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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.
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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
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We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
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We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.
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All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
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The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.