Christopher Morley

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.

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

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, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.

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

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

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

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

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

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

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

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

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

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

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.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

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.

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.

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

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

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

Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.

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

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

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.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

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.

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

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.