Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth5 May 1890
CountryUnited States of America
men thinking today
It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future life.
decision choices finding-yourself
Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution is, as far as possible, to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices; simply to do what you find yourself doing; to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible; to allow things to settle themselves, as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.
life prayer war
My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.
book helping virtue
What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.
women impossible moments
How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.
women fifty novelty
Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.
friendship fashion growing-up
Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.
truth facts prejudice
Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.
thinking avid humanity
Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of us also seems to regard himself as existing on a detached plane of observation, exempt (save in moments of avid crisis) from the strange whims of humanity en masse.
reality definitions noble
Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
fun men motto
Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be "Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!
men self young
Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.
running science glasses
It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.
book doctors people
A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is different from other trades. People don't know they want books. I can see just by looking at you that your mind is ill for lack of books but you are blissfully unaware of it!