Christopher Morley Short Quotes

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

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April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

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

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There was so much handwriting on the wall That even the wall fell down.

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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads to madness.

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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

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My theology, briefly,
Is that the Universe
Was Dictated
But not Signed.

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There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.

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Chattering voltage like a broken wire The wild cicada cried, Six weeks to frost!

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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

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No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

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But if you're smart you don't hold up your hand in class and ask to be called on.

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The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

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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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Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.

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There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.

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

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Marriage is the square of a plus b In other words 22a + b + 2ab Where 2ab (of course) Are twins.

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Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.

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

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Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

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Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.

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A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

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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.

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There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.

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For after all, happiness (as the mathematicians might say) lies on a curve, and we approach it only by asymptote.

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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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Philadelphia was the first city to foresee the advantages of a Federal constitution and oatmeal as a breakfast food.

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