Christopher Morley - Man Quotes

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Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.

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

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When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue — you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night — there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.

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Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be "Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!"

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

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Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

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

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There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.

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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.

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Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.

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

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The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.

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