Christopher Morley Quotes, Thoughts and Images

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

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

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

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

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.

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

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

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

Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

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

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

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

Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

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.

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.

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

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.