Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley

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.

Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley

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.

Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley

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.

Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley

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.

Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley

Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?

Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley

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.

Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.