Quotes

“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.” Christopher Morley

“Act like you expect to get into the end zone.” Christopher Morley

“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.” Christopher Morley

“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.” Christopher Morley

“A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.” Christopher Morley

“The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.” Christopher Morley

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

“God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.” Christopher Morley

“The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.” Christopher Morley

“The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.” Christopher Morley

“Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.” Christopher Morley

“No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.” Christopher Morley

“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.” Christopher Morley

“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.” Christopher Morley

“My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.” Christopher Morley

“People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.” Christopher Morley

“The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.” Christopher Morley

“All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.” Christopher Morley

“All students can learn.” Christopher Morley

“If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.” Christopher Morley

“We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.” Christopher Morley

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

“Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.” Christopher Morley

“New York, the nation's thyroid gland.” Christopher Morley

“Only the sinner has the right to preach.” Christopher Morley

“The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.” Christopher Morley

“Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?” Christopher Morley

“Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.” Christopher Morley

“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.” Christopher Morley

“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” Max Muller