Quotes from Christopher Morley

My theology briefly Is that the universe Was dictated But not signed.

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

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

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 man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

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

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

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

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.

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

If we all 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 tell them that they loved them.

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

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

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.

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.

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.

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

There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them.

If we discovered that we had only 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.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.