Christopher Morley Quotes

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• April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
• A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
• Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
• There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
• There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
• Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
• Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else…
• Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most…
• Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief,…
• No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
• High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
• There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
• In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
• When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole…
• I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.
• Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
• Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does…
• A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
• The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
• The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

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