Christopher Morley Quotes
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Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.
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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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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 trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
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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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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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Only the sinner has the right to preach.
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A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
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Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
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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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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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It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
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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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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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There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
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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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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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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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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.