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Christopher Morley Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty Picture Quote #1

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days Picture Quote #1

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Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature Picture Quote #1

There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner Picture Quote #1

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too Picture Quote #1

The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning Picture Quote #1

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America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of his country Picture Quote #1

Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark but even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard for the milkman to come up the yard Picture Quote #1

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did Picture Quote #1

The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow Picture Quote #1

By the time the youngest children have learned to keep the house tidy, the oldest grandchildren are on hand to tear it to pieces Picture Quote #1

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, of being only four years old Picture Quote #1

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Things of the spirit differ from things material in that the more you give the more you have Picture Quote #1

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love Picture Quote #1

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 be always part of unanimity Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late, and not in the barroom downstairs? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is different from other trades. People don’t know they want books. I can see just by looking at you that your mind is ill for lack of books but you are blissfully unaware of it! Picture Quote #1

Printer’s ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. 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 Picture Quote #1

There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book Picture Quote #1

The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer’s ink is the greater explosive: it will win Picture Quote #1

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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 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 Quotes) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty (Christopher Morley Quotes) There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way (Christopher Morley Quotes) 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 Quotes) God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days (Christopher Morley Quotes) Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water (Christopher Morley Quotes) 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 Quotes) It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature (Christopher Morley Quotes) There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner (Christopher Morley Quotes) People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too (Christopher Morley Quotes) The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning (Christopher Morley Quotes) America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of his country (Christopher Morley Quotes) Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark but even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard for the milkman to come up the yard (Christopher Morley Quotes) Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did (Christopher Morley Quotes) The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow (Christopher Morley Quotes) By the time the youngest children have learned to keep the house tidy, the oldest grandchildren are on hand to tear it to pieces (Christopher Morley Quotes) The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, of being only four years old (Christopher Morley Quotes) Things of the spirit differ from things material in that the more you give the more you have (Christopher Morley Quotes) There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love (Christopher Morley Quotes) 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 be always part of unanimity (Christopher Morley Quotes) 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 (Christopher Morley Quotes) Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late, and not in the barroom downstairs? (Christopher Morley Quotes) 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 (Christopher Morley Quotes) 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 Quotes) A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is different from other trades. People don’t know they want books. I can see just by looking at you that your mind is ill for lack of books but you are blissfully unaware of it! (Christopher Morley Quotes) Printer’s ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. 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 Quotes) There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book (Christopher Morley Quotes) The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer’s ink is the greater explosive: it will win (Christopher Morley Quotes)

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