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Christopher Morley [1890-1957] American

Rank: 101
Author, Journalist

Christopher Morley was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. He also produced stage productions for a few years and gave college lectures.

Beauty, Life, Best, Anger, Chance, Communication, Courage, Failure, Good, Humor, Inspirational, Learning, Motivational, Nature, Parenting, Pet, Sad, Success, Wedding

Quote	Tags	Rank
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.	Best, Sad	101
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.	Beauty	102
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.	Anger, Failure, Life	103
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.	Motivational	104
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.	Life, Success	105
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.	Good, Learning, Life	106
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.	Nature	107
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.	Humor	108
We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.	Parenting	109
No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.		110
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.	Beauty	111
Act like you expect to get into the end zone.	Inspirational	112
People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.		113
New York, the nation's thyroid gland.		114
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.		115
There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.	Communication	116
From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.	Best, Chance	117
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.		118
A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.		119
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.		120
The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.	Wedding	121
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.		122
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.		123
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.		124
Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.		125
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.		126
Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.		201
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.		202
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.	Pet	203
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.	Beauty	204
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.		205
Only the sinner has the right to preach.		206
God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.		207
Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.		208
If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.		209
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.	Courage	210
Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?		211
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.		212
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.		213
All students can learn.		214
Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.		215
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.		216

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