Quotes by Christopher Morley
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No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
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.
Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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.
Only the sinner has the right to preach.
When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue-you sell him a whole new life.
Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
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.
A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
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