There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. Christopher Morley More Quotes by Christopher Morley More Quotes From Christopher Morley That's what this country needs -- more books! Christopher Morley country book needs The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is. Christopher Morley everlasting corners fascinating People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too. Christopher Morley people moving thinking It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature. Christopher Morley violence literature men Only the sinner has the right to preach. Christopher Morley sinner literature All students can learn. Christopher Morley students New York, the nation's thyroid gland. Christopher Morley cities literature new-york Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump. Christopher Morley slumps commodity political I wish there could be an international peace conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own conviction is that the future happiness of the world depends in no small measure on them and on the librarians. Christopher Morley future-happiness wish world The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of sleep. Even when awake it is a victim of its own ill-adjustment, of disease, of age, of external suggestion, of nature's compulsions; it doubts its own sensations and trusts only in instruments and averages. Christopher Morley doubt sleep average Standing by the crib of one's own baby, with that world - old pang of compassion and protectiveness toward this so little creature that has all its course to run, the heart flies back in yearning and gratitude to those who felt just so toward one's self. Then for the first time one understands the homely succession of sacrifices and pains by which life is transmitted and fostered down the stumbling generations of men. Christopher Morley gratitude running baby God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days. Christopher Morley creation-of-man done men The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old. Christopher Morley childhood children years Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men. Christopher Morley brain men world 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. Christopher Morley glasses running science Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men. Christopher Morley self young men Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be "Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him! Christopher Morley motto fun men Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened. Christopher Morley happened diaries writing 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 crowns hardship men The plural of spouse is spice. Christopher Morley spices humor funny
