Christopher Morley
The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.Collection: Wedding
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.Collection: Pet
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.Collection: Success
Act like you expect to get into the end zone.Collection: Inspirational
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.Collection: Future
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.Collection: Humor
There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.Collection: Communication
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.Collection: Good
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.Collection: Beauty
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.Collection: Motivational
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.Collection: Life
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.Collection: Beauty
We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.Collection: Parenting
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.Collection: Sad
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.Collection: Courage
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.Collection: Chance
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.Collection: Beauty
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.
No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
Only the sinner has the right to preach.
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.
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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.
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
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.
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.
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
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.
People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
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.
If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.
A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.
Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?
All students can learn.
Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh.Collection: Add
It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.Collection: Running
One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.Collection: Humanity
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.Collection: God
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.Collection: Book
There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.Collection: Book
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.Collection: Real
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.Collection: Inspirational