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Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
— John Morley
The censure of a dog is something no man can stand.
— Christopher Morley
As far as I can see, a man who's fond of books never need starve!
— Christopher Morley
A cough is a symptom, not a disease. Take it to your doctor and he can give you something serious to worry about.
— Robert Morley
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
The next great task of science is to create a religion for humanity.
— John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley Of Blackburn
Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.
— Christopher Morley
The idea is to have no idea. Get lost. Get lost in the landscape.
— Malcolm Morley
I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribner's in New York before I was 30.
— Morley Callaghan
I'm probably better known for boxing with Hemingway than for anything I've written.
— Morley Callaghan
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
There is no inevitable connection between Christianity and cynicism. Truth is not a salad, is it, that you must always dress it with vinegar?
— William Morley Punshon
There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
— Christopher Morley
It's in books that most of us learn how splendidly worth-while life is.
— Christopher Morley
Killing is the payoff of war.
— Morley Safer
I really feel stateless, which is not bad, because I always felt a man without a country was not encumbered by narrow loyalties.
— Morley Safer
A man who has his initials on his pyjamas must be uncertain of himself. Surely you should know who you are at bed time.
— Robert Morley
Show me the man who has enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore.
— Robert Morley
What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?
— Morley Safer
Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall.
— Morley Safer
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
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
We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.
— William Morley Punshon
Malnutrition of the reading faculty is a serious thing. Let us prescribe for you.
— Christopher Morley
Talkers never write. They go on talking." There
— Christopher Morley
Jack and Stella rushed over to the edge just in time to see Charming disappearing into the reduction duality universe.
— Simon J. Morley
Art is a great means of self-discovery. One of the things that appealed to me in the beginning was that it was a great way to get girlfriends.
— Malcolm Morley
His sins seemed to be so few that he was alarmed and groped anxiously for more, knowing he could not be without guilt.
— Morley Callaghan
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
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
If the critics were always right we should be in deep trouble.
— Robert Morley
When your circumstances fail but your character succeeds, you become a model of hope for others.
— Patrick Morley
The people in books become more real to you than any one in actual life.
— Christopher Morley
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
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
For the most part, I think American armies are awfully good in the business of protecting civilians, of not going over the line.
— Morley Safer
If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.
— Christopher Morley
What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it.
— Morley Safer
But, as our friend Samuel Butler says, he that is stupid in little will also be stupid in much.
— Christopher Morley
Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?
— William Morley Punshon
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
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.
— Christopher Morley
It is intolerable for a human being to go on doing any task as a penance, under duress.
— Christopher Morley
Robert Morley is a legend in his own lunchtime.
— Rex Harrison
The means prepare the end, and the end is what the means have made of it.
— John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley Of Blackburn
It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, however, it is absolutely essential.
— Robert Morley
Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
— Christopher Morley
I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.
— Karen Morley
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
— Christopher Morley
It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.
— Karen Morley
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
— Christopher Morley
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
There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way.
— Christopher Morley
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
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
How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.
— Christopher Morley
Every child should be placed on a doorstep to sell something. It's the best possible training for life.
— Robert Morley
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
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
All change begins with someone having a thought.
— Paul Morley
The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.
— Morley Safer
In his lifetime the great French impressionist painter Corot painted 2000 canvases. Of that number, 3000 are in the United States.
— Morley Safer
No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
— Christopher Morley
Overhead the night was a superb arch of clear frost, sifted with stars.
— Christopher Morley
In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
— John Morley
In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country.
— Morley Safer
Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion ... They begin haphazard.
— Christopher Morley
There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.
— William Morley Punshon
I'd like to have seen Tony Morley left on as a down-and-out winger.
— Jimmy Armfield
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
— Christopher Morley
The best photographs are made by the best people.
— Morley Baer
We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.
— Morley Safer
I have no desire to put my feet up. Why would I?
— Morley Safer
I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump.
— Karen Morley
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
— Christopher Morley
From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
— Karen Morley
Nature, it her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theatre of the tragedy of man
— John Morley
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