Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth5 May 1890
CountryUnited States of America
animal thinking dessert
Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink That is the finest of suppers, I think When I'm grown up and can have what I please, I think I shall always insist upon these.
fashion people tables
There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.
witty blessed thinking
Blessed is the satirist; and blessed the ironist; blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist; for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.
mind library proud
A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.
wise dog dark
Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.
country america government
America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of his country.
truth safety hours
Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.
marriage men wife
The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.
media mind afternoon
The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.
men thinking lust
Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.
philosophy rain people
Truth and Beauty (perhaps Keats was wrong in identifying them: perhaps they have the relation of Wit and Humour, or Rain and Rainbow) are of interest only to hungry people. There are several kinds of hunger. If Socrates, Spinoza, and Santayana had had free access to a midnight icebox we would never have heard of them. Shall I be ashamed of my little mewing truths?... I ask to be forgiven: they are such tiny ones.
book soul special
We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.
poetry together groups
Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.
literature gideon too-late
Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?