Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
I wish there could be an international peace conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own conviction is that… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is… — 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
The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Standing by the crib of one's own baby, with that world - old pang of compassion and protectiveness toward this so little… — 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
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