Authors - Christopher Morley
Brief Biography
Christopher Morley (May 5, 1890 - March 28, 1957) was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. He also produced stage productions for a few years and gave college lectures. - Wikipedia
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Quote 1003by Anonymous on 09/01/2011
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.
Quote 1092by Anonymous on 10/01/2011
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.
Quote 1220by Anonymous on 11/01/2011
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.
Quote 1251by Anonymous on 11/01/2011
Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
Quote 1343by Anonymous on 12/01/2011
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
Quote 1558by Anonymous on 14/01/2011
There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
Quote 1607by Anonymous on 14/01/2011
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.
Quote 1782by Anonymous on 16/01/2011
Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.
Quote 1798by Anonymous on 16/01/2011
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Quote 2136by Anonymous on 22/01/2011
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Quote 2214by Anonymous on 24/01/2011
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
Quote 3112by Anonymous on 03/02/2011
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Quote 3304by Anonymous on 05/02/2011
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
Quote 3824by Anonymous on 10/02/2011
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
Quote 3875by Anonymous on 12/02/2011
When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
Quote 4395by Anonymous on 20/02/2011
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
Quote 4555by Anonymous on 23/02/2011
Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
Quote 4899by Anonymous on 04/05/2011
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversations as a dog does.
Quote 5906by Anonymous on 05/09/2011
People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.
Quote 5917by Anonymous on 06/09/2011
We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
Quote 11205by Anonymous on 01/12/2012
The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
