Christopher Morley Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
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“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.”
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“High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.”
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“No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.”
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“Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.”
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“The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.”
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“The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.”
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“The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.”
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“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.”
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“Act like you expect to get into the end zone.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.”
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“All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.”
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“We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.”
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“Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?”
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“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.”
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“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
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“There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.”
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“Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.”
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“April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.”
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“A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.”
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“The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.”
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“No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.”
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“Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.”
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“There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.”
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