Quotes by Christopher Morley

“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.”

“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”

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

“We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up.”

“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 b...”

“There is only one success — to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

“New York the nation's thyroid gland.”

“A town that has no ceiling price A town of double-talk A town so big men name her twice Like so: 'N'Yawk N'Yawk.'”

“There are three ingredients in the good life learning earning and yearning.”

“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning earning and yearning.”

“Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried unresisting with the current. They float through easy days. They live unquestioning in the moment.”

“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.”

“When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life.”