Christopher Morley

Christopher Morley American journalist, novelist, poet, and playwright
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There is only one success -to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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.

Christopher Morley

There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.

Christopher Morley

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.

Christopher Morley

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, 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.

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

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.

Christopher Morley

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

Christopher Morley

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

Christopher Morley

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

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.

Christopher Morley

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Christopher Morley

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

Christopher Morley

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.

Christopher Morley

We've had bad luck with children; they've all grown up.

Christopher Morley

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley