Quotes by Christopher Morley
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All students can learn.
If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
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 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.
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
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.
Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.
Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?
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 bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
No man is lonely while eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.
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.
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
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.
New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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