Christopher Morley quotes - page 2

There's no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. (Christopher Morley)
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. View quote
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That's what this country needs -- more books! View quote
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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen. View quote
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Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. View quote
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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came. View quote
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There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book. View quote
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People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too. View quote
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We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul. View quote
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It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature. View quote
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Lord when you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book. (Christopher Morley)
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. View quote
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Act like you expect to get into the end zone. View quote
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April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go. View quote
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Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment. View quote
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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. View quote
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Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump. View quote
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New York, the nation's thyroid gland. View quote
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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age. View quote
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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. View quote
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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. (Christopher Morley)
The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas. View quote
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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. View quote
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From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance. View quote
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Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe. View quote
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