Quotes by Christopher Morley

Weve had bad luck with our kids - theyve all grown up.

Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution ... is as far as possible to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices simply to do what you find yourself doing to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible to allow things to settle themselves as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.

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

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

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti - it requires so much attention.

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

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas.

If we all 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 tell them that they loved them.

If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried unresisting with the current. They float through easy days. They live unquestioning in the moment.

My theology briefly Is that the universe Was dictated But not signed.

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

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

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.

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.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

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.