The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. Christopher Morley More Quotes by Christopher Morley More Quotes From Christopher Morley There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book. Christopher Morley earth heaven book A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. Christopher Morley crazy silly funny One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings. Christopher Morley penalties being-human humanity Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay. Christopher Morley oysters water men Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard. Christopher Morley wise dog dark Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Christopher Morley reading book thinking Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty. Christopher Morley novelty women world It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future life. Christopher Morley men life thinking Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard. Christopher Morley growing-up fashion friendship They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them. Christopher Morley library book needs 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 eye literature mean Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did. Christopher Morley sitting-down poetry together There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published. Christopher Morley certain letters people A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it. Christopher Morley library proud mind 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 office-work new-york home Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact. Christopher Morley prejudice truth facts Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of us also seems to regard himself as existing on a detached plane of observation, exempt (save in moments of avid crisis) from the strange whims of humanity en masse. Christopher Morley avid humanity thinking The little Plumpuppets are fairies of beds; They have nothing to do but watch sleepyheads; They turn down the sheets and they tuck you in tight, And dance on your pillow to wish you good night! Christopher Morley bed good-night wish The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win. Christopher Morley winning book years Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error. Christopher Morley hunger errors book
