Christopher Morley Quotes
Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. New York, the nation's thyroid gland. No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention. No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does. Only the sinner has the right to preach. People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too. Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, 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. The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people. The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came. The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock. There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. 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've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up. 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.
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