“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning. A man should be learning as he goes; and he… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“What absurd victims of contrary desires we are! If a man is settled in one place he yearns to wander; when he… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“Books are the immortality of the race, the father and mother of most that is worth while cherishing in our hearts. To… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“Life's a lot different from what people pretend. That's why pretending is fun. I used to think it was some special wickedness… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“The human yearning for innocent pastime is a pathetic thing, come to think about it. It shows what a desperately grim thing… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.” — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue- you sell… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“It's in books that most of us learn how splendidly worth-while life is.” — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
He who does not believe that God is above all is either a fool or has no experience of life — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“It is so easy to let life go by us in its swift amusing course, that sometimes it hardly seems worthwhile to… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way.” — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“The people in books become more real to you than any one in actual life.” — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning. A man should be learning as he goes; and he should be… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
