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 evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow. — 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
“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
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“Read every day something no one else is reading.Think every day something no one else is thinking. It is bad for the… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“Do you know why people are reading more books now than ever before? Because the terrific catastrophe of the war has made… — 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
