Christopher Morley
"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."
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"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."
Christopher Morley
"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."
Christopher Morley
"The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas."
Christopher Morley
"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning earning and yearning."
Christopher Morley
"No man is lonely while eating spaghetti - it requires so much attention."
Christopher Morley
"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."
Christopher Morley
"There are three ingredients in the good life learning earning and yearning."
Christopher Morley
"The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people."
Christopher Morley
"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."
Christopher Morley
"We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up."
Christopher Morley
"A town that has no ceiling price A town of double-talk A town so big men name her twice Like so: 'N'Yawk N'Yawk."
Christopher Morley
"New York the nation's thyroid gland."
Christopher Morley
"New York, the nation's thyroid gland."
Christopher Morley
"New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle;Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness…. There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory in Their skyscraping sins; but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly."
Christopher Morley
"They go in not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them."
Christopher Morley
"High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead."
Christopher Morley
"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."
Christopher Morley
"A good book ought to have something simple about it. And, like Eve, it ought to come from somewhere near the third rib: there ought to be a heart beating in it. A story that's all forehead doesn't amount to much."
Christopher Morley
"No man is lonely while eating spaghetti:it requires so much attention."
Christopher Morley
"In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty."
Christopher Morley
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