Facts about Christopher Morley

Occup.Author
FromUSA
BornMay 5, 1890
DiedMarch 28, 1957
Aged66 years

Summary

Christopher Morley was a famous Author from USA, who lived between May 5, 1890 and March 28, 1957. He/she became 66 years old.

Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac taurus, who is known for Security, Subtle strength, Appreciation, Instruction, Patience. Our collection contains 37 quotes who is written / told by Christopher, under the main topic Anger.

Related authors: Lawrence Clark Powell (American)

37 Famous quotes by Christopher Morley

Small: All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim
"All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim"
Small: 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"
Small: People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thin
"People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too"
Small: A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life
"A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life"
Small: From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best
"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"
Small: No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does
"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does"
Small: It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature
"It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature"
Small: God made man merely to hear some praise of what hed done on those Five Days
"God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days"
Small: Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves beh
"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"
Small: The trouble with wedlock is that theres not enough wed and too much lock
"The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock"
Small: My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed
"My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed"
Small: Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing
"Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing"
Small: I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind and it didnt seem to ma
"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"
Small: All students can learn
"All students can learn"
Small: The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people
"The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people"
Small: Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.
"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"
Small: Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which youre not really interested in order to get
"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"
Small: Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it
"Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it"
Small: If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isnt so
"If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so"
Small: If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone b
"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"
Small: Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water
"Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water"
Small: Act like you expect to get into the end zone
"Act like you expect to get into the end zone"
Small: No man is lonely eating spaghetti it requires so much attention
"No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention"
Small: New York, the nations thyroid gland
"New York, the nation's thyroid gland"
Small: Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really importan
"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"
Small: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting
"Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting"
Small: A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing
"A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing"
Small: The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets
"The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets"
Small: Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where its usually too late?
"Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?"
Small: Weve had bad luck with our kids - theyve all grown up
"We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up"
Small: The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness
"The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness"
Small: In every mans heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty
"In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty"
Small: High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead
"High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead"
Small: Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, its the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to
"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"
Small: Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump
"Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump"
Small: There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen
"There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen"
Small: Only the sinner has the right to preach
"Only the sinner has the right to preach"