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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

As far as I can see, a man who's fond of books never need starve! — Christopher 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

The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel. — Robert Morley

I'm probably better known for boxing with Hemingway than for anything I've written. — Morley Callaghan

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

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

Pilgrims who are looking for a cure are soon looking for a curio. — Morley Safer

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock. — Christopher Morley

So many people define themselves by what they've accomplished or not accomplished. — Morley

Hope is like compassion to me. It's like possibility and living in possibility. — 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

Having power and being in a position of power can really blur your judgement, and it's not always that clear. — Bobby Morley

I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years. — Morley Safer

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

New York, the nation's thyroid gland. — Christopher Morley

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

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public. — Robert Morley

A party: one arrives long after it's started, and one's going to leave long before it's over. — Robert Morley

You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration. — John Morley

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids. — Morley Safer

I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery. — Morley Safer

If you want to look at a cheap shot, look at Mr. Koons's or Mr. Gober's art. By no definition is it art. — 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

What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate? — Morley Safer

I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything. — Karen Morley

Jack and Stella rushed over to the edge just in time to see Charming disappearing into the reduction duality universe. — Simon J. 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

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

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

Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall. — Morley Safer

You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that. — Morley Safer

Pessimists can be such bores, and it's lazy to believe the worst. — Paul 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

Talkers never write. They go on talking." There — Christopher Morley

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

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

There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching. It's a kind of trick of the mind and he is born with it.
— Morley Callaghan

Make friends with your unconscious life. That's a great source of energy. — Malcolm Morley

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

plot is not the story, but an Ariadne's thread you follow through a labyrinth of scenes. — David Morley

That's what this country needs -- more books! — Christopher Morley

McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determination, a history of resisting foreign invasion. — Morley Safer

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. — Christopher 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

Encouragement is food for the heart, and every heart is a hungry heart. — Pat Morley

Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right? — William Morley Punshon

Malnutrition of the reading faculty is a serious thing. Let us prescribe for you. — Christopher Morley

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

What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it. — Morley Safer

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

I love you because we hate the same stuff — 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 am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs. — Morley Safer

Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders. — John 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

And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work. — Karen Morley

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

If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat. — Robert 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

Carbon trading engages finance directors. It takes the issue of energy efficiency right to the top of the company. — Elliot Morley

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