Quotes from Christopher Morley


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

    God | Praise | Hear


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

    Wedding | Trouble | Lock


    Only the sinner has the right to preach.

    Sinner | Preach


    Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

    Plumbing | Ingenious


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

    Courage | Door | Madness


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

    Universe | Theology | Dictated


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

    Future | Enemy | Nicest


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

    Words | Slump | Commodity


    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.

    God | Questions | Matter


    All students can learn.

    Learn | Students


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

    Perhaps | Reminding


    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.

    Life | Paper | Glue


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

    Pet | Dog | Genius


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

    Beauty | Beautiful | Madness


    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.

    Training | Learn | Dancing


    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.

    Effort | Small | Child


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

    Thinking | Purpose | Trap


    The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

    Bear | Hardest


    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.

    Interested | Order | Pretend


    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.

    Loved | Telephone | Left


       

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