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Christopher Morley quotes: The censure of a dog is something no man can stand. The censure of a dog is something no man can stand.
Christopher Morley quotes: The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas. The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.
Christopher Morley quotes: As far as I can see, a man who's fond of books never need starve! As far as I can see, a man who's fond of books never need starve!
Christopher Morley quotes: For paradise in the world to come is uncertain, but there is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven we inhabit when we read a good book. For paradise in the world to come is uncertain, but there is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven we inhabit when we read a good book.
Christopher Morley quotes: Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump. Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.
Christopher Morley quotes: This book Is intended to be read in bed. Please do not attempt to read it anywhere else. This book Is intended to be read in bed. Please do not attempt to read it anywhere else.
Christopher Morley quotes: One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings
Christopher Morley quotes: No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does. No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
Christopher Morley quotes: 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. 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.
Christopher Morley quotes: But if you're smart you don't hold up your hand in class and ask to be called on. But if you're smart you don't hold up your hand in class and ask to be called on.
Christopher Morley quotes: Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare. Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.
Christopher Morley quotes: They go in not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them. They go in not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.
Christopher Morley quotes: Very often human beings don't become available for the purposes of art until they have shaken off some of their dogged, self-preserving sanity. Very often human beings don't become available for the purposes of art until they have shaken off some of their dogged, self-preserving sanity.
Christopher Morley quotes: A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
Christopher Morley quotes: The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock. The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
Christopher Morley quotes: Laughter and prayer are the two noblest habits of man; they mark us off from the brutes. Laughter and prayer are the two noblest habits of man; they mark us off from the brutes.
Christopher Morley quotes: Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude. Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.
Christopher Morley quotes: What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily. What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.
Christopher Morley quotes: There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen. There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
Christopher Morley quotes: The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning. The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.
Christopher Morley quotes: Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
Christopher Morley quotes: It's in books that most of us learn how splendidly worth-while life is. It's in books that most of us learn how splendidly worth-while life is.
Christopher Morley quotes: New York, the nation's thyroid gland. New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
Christopher Morley quotes: There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book. There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.
Christopher Morley quotes: Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it
Christopher Morley quotes: Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe. Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.
Christopher Morley quotes: Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment. Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
Christopher Morley quotes: High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley quotes: That's the kind of thing, if you get to thinking about, that could wake you in the middle of night. I didn't want my nights to have any middles. That's the kind of thing, if you get to thinking about, that could wake you in the middle of night. I didn't want my nights to have any middles.
Christopher Morley quotes: People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too. People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.
Christopher Morley quotes: Big shots are just little shots that keep shooting. Big shots are just little shots that keep shooting.
Christopher Morley quotes: Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late? Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?
Christopher Morley quotes: Human beings pay very little attention to what is told them unless they know something about it already. Human beings pay very little attention to what is told them unless they know something about it already.
Christopher Morley quotes: The plural of spouse is spice. The plural of spouse is spice.
Christopher Morley quotes: The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came. The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
Christopher Morley quotes: 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. 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.
Christopher Morley quotes: Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age. Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
Christopher Morley quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact. Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.
Christopher Morley quotes: All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful, but the beauty is grim. All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful, but the beauty is grim.
Christopher Morley quotes: I like the Iliad and the Argosy I like the Iliad and the Argosy
Christopher Morley quotes: All students can learn. All students can learn.
Christopher Morley quotes: The beauty of being a bookseller is that you don't have to be a literary critic: all you have to do to books is enjoy them. The beauty of being a bookseller is that you don't have to be a literary critic: all you have to do to books is enjoy them.
Christopher Morley quotes: There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning. There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.
Christopher Morley quotes: The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
Christopher Morley quotes: My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated, but not signed. My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated, but not signed.
Christopher Morley quotes: The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Christopher Morley quotes: God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days. God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
Christopher Morley quotes: Summer was over, and we were no longer young, but there were great things before us. Summer was over, and we were no longer young, but there were great things before us.
Christopher Morley quotes: April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go. April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
Christopher Morley quotes: Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men. Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.
Christopher Morley quotes: There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
Christopher Morley quotes: Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else. Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.
Christopher Morley quotes: Calling us men doesn't make us men. No creature on earth has a right to think himself a human being if he doesn't know at least one good book. Calling us men doesn't make us men. No creature on earth has a right to think himself a human being if he doesn't know at least one good book.
Christopher Morley quotes: A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by. A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
Christopher Morley quotes: There is no one so grateful as the man to whom you have given just the book his soul needed and he never knew it. There is no one so grateful as the man to whom you have given just the book his soul needed and he never knew it.
Christopher Morley quotes: Talkers never write. They go on talking." There Talkers never write. They go on talking." There
Christopher Morley quotes: That's the kind of thing that will wake you up in the middle of the night. I don't want to have a night with any middle That's the kind of thing that will wake you up in the middle of the night. I don't want to have a night with any middle
Christopher Morley quotes: It always seemed to me that [Henry James] had a kind of rush of words to the head and never stopped to sort them out properly. It always seemed to me that [Henry James] had a kind of rush of words to the head and never stopped to sort them out properly.
Christopher Morley quotes: No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention. No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
Christopher Morley quotes: Overhead the night was a superb arch of clear frost, sifted with stars. Overhead the night was a superb arch of clear frost, sifted with stars.
Christopher Morley quotes: Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion ... They begin haphazard. Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion ... They begin haphazard.
Christopher Morley quotes: It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature. It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
Christopher Morley quotes: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
Christopher Morley quotes: Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard. Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.
Christopher Morley quotes: A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it. A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.
Christopher Morley quotes: It is intolerable for a human being to go on doing any task as a penance, under duress. It is intolerable for a human being to go on doing any task as a penance, under duress.
Christopher Morley quotes: Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities. Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
Christopher Morley quotes: The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
Christopher Morley quotes: The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people. The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
Christopher Morley quotes: The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate. The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.
Christopher Morley quotes: There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way. There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way.
Christopher Morley quotes: It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way. It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.
Christopher Morley quotes: How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible. How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.
Christopher Morley quotes: There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published. There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.
Christopher Morley quotes: 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. 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 quotes: And the dog by the fender stretched himself out in the luxuriant vacancy of mind only known to dogs surrounded by a happy group of their friends. And the dog by the fender stretched himself out in the luxuriant vacancy of mind only known to dogs surrounded by a happy group of their friends.
Christopher Morley quotes: A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
Christopher Morley quotes: That's what this country needs -- more books! That's what this country needs -- more books!
Christopher Morley quotes: Only the sinner has the right to preach. Only the sinner has the right to preach.
Christopher Morley quotes: The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is. The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
Christopher Morley quotes: Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened. Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.
Christopher Morley quotes: The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow. The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.
Christopher Morley quotes: People need books, but they don't know they need them. Generally they are not aware that the books they need are in existence. - Roger Mifflin People need books, but they don't know they need them. Generally they are not aware that the books they need are in existence. - Roger Mifflin
Christopher Morley quotes: Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety. Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.
Christopher Morley quotes: In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
Christopher Morley quotes: Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty. Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.
Christopher Morley quotes: The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old. The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.
Christopher Morley quotes: The people in books become more real to you than any one in actual life. The people in books become more real to you than any one in actual life.
Christopher Morley quotes: Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him. Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.
Christopher Morley quotes: 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. 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.
Christopher Morley quotes: If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so. If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.
Christopher Morley quotes: 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. 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.
Christopher Morley quotes: But, as our friend Samuel Butler says, he that is stupid in little will also be stupid in much. But, as our friend Samuel Butler says, he that is stupid in little will also be stupid in much.
Christopher Morley quotes: Malnutrition of the reading faculty is a serious thing. Let us prescribe for you. Malnutrition of the reading faculty is a serious thing. Let us prescribe for you.
Christopher Morley quotes: There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner. There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.
Christopher Morley quotes: 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. 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.

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