Quotes by Christopher Morley

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

"Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it."

"A human being…an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing."

"Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going."

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

"Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it."

"A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing."

"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."

"Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it."

"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 continually be part of unanimity."

"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."

"No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention."

"Act like you expect to get into the end zone."

"The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets."

"When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life."

"High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead."

"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."

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

"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does."

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