~ Christopher Morley Quotes ~

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

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In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

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

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All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

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The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas.

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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.'

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People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster that we are thinking faster too.

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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.

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Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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If we all 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 tell them that they loved them.