More - Christopher Morley Quotes

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature

Christopher Morley

 Blame

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.

Christopher Morley

 American Author Books And Reading

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, 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.

Christopher Morley

 

There was so much handwriting on the wall that even the wall fell down

Christopher Morley

 

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

Christopher Morley

 American Author

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Christopher Morley

 American Author

There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.

Christopher Morley

 American Author

Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe

Christopher Morley

 

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.

Christopher Morley

 American Author Awareness

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

Christopher Morley

 American Author