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.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversations as a dog does.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

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

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Only the sinner has a right to preach

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.

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.