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christopher morley Quotes

Christopher Morley Quotes

Birth Date: 1890-05-05 (Monday, May 5th, 1890)

 

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    • 'Lord!' he said, 'when you sell a man a book you don't sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean. Jiminy! If I were the baker or the butcher or the broom huckster, people would run to the gate when I came by - just waiting for my stuff. And here I go loaded with everlasting salvation - yes, ma'am, salvation for their little, stunted minds - and it's hard to make 'em see it. That's what makes it worth while - I'm doing something that nobody else from Nazareth, Maine, to Walla Walla, Washington, has ever thought of. It's a new field, but by the bones of Whitman, it's worth while. That's what this country needs - more books!'
    • It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.
    • Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.
    • The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.
    • Philadelphia was the first city to foresee the advantages of a Federal constitution and oatmeal as a breakfast food.
    • Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
    • There is only one success,... to be able to spend your life in your own way.
    • A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
    • April prepares her green traffic light, and the world thinks GO!
    • Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
    • My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated, but not signed.
    • No man is lonely while eating spaghetti - it requires too much attention.
    • No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversations as a dog does.
    • 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 be always part of unanimity.
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