We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up. — Christopher Morley Bad luck Copy Share Image
“The people in books become more real to you than any one in actual life.” — Christopher Morley Actual life 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
“Big shots are just little shots that keep shooting.” — Christopher Morley Big shots Copy Share Image
“It's in books that most of us learn how splendidly worth-while life is.” — Christopher Morley Book Copy Share Image
“There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.” — Christopher Morley Desire Copy Share Image
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. — Christopher Morley Desire Copy Share Image
“Overhead the night was a superb arch of clear frost, sifted with stars.” — Christopher Morley Moon 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
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. — Christopher Morley Beautiful 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
Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment. — Christopher Morley Best teacher 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 Book Copy Share Image
They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some… — Christopher Morley Book 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 Library Copy Share Image
Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
The little Plumpuppets are fairies of beds; They have nothing to do but watch sleepyheads; They turn down the sheets and they… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can… — 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… — Christopher Morley Book Copy Share Image
Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“That's why I call this place the Haunted Bookshop. Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven't read. Poor uneasy spirits,… — Christopher Morley Books Copy Share Image
Blessed is the satirist; and blessed the ironist; blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist; for each, having seen one spoke… — Christopher Morley Blessed 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 Books Copy Share Image
Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution is, as far as possible, to avoid conscious rational decisions and… — Christopher Morley Certainty Copy Share Image
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. — Christopher Morley Bicycle Copy Share Image
There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book. — Christopher Morley Book Copy Share Image
Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way.” — Christopher Morley Life 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 Atheism Copy Share Image
“No man is lonely while eating spaghetti: it requires so much attention.” — Christopher Morley Attention 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 Bookshops Copy Share Image
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. — 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 Book Copy Share Image
Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman… — Christopher Morley Animal Copy Share Image
Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before… — Christopher Morley Dance Copy Share Image
“Oh, silly woman! Leave your stove, your pots and pans and chores, even if only for one day! Come out and see… — Christopher Morley Silly 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
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
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