Quotes by Christopher Morley

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people."

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

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