Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth5 May 1890
CountryUnited States of America
men oysters water
Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.
morning children interesting
The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.
teacher good-man unhappy
Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
education latin america
When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.
kindness book lovely
The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.
important seems
Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.
blessed frailty rectitude
Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.
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.