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Christopher Morley - From the Books category:
Read every day something no one else is reading. Think something no one else is thinking. It is bad for the mind to be always a part of unanimity. (Christopher Morley)
Christopher Morley - From the Books category:
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. (Christopher Morley)
Christopher Morley - From the Critics category:
A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by. (Christopher Morley)
Christopher Morley - From the Ego category:
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. (Christopher Morley)
Christopher Morley - From the Goodness category:
There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning. (Christopher Morley)
Christopher Morley - From the Humour category:
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. (Christopher Morley)
Christopher Morley - From the Ideas category:
The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas. (Christopher Morley)
Christopher Morley - From the Religion category:
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. (Christopher Morley)
Christopher Morley - From the Success category:
There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it. (Christopher Morley)
Christopher Morley - From the Truth category:
Truth is the strong compost in which beauty may sometime germinate. (Christopher Morley)
Christopher Morley - From the Writing category:
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. (Christopher Morley)
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