Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth5 May 1890
CountryUnited States of America
inspirational life motivational
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
laughter humor two
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 oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
beauty lonely pain
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, the souvenir of pain.
inspirational education book
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 new life.
beauty faith inspiration
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
funny life witty
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
sleep average doubt
The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of sleep. Even when awake it is a victim of its own ill-adjustment, of disease, of age, of external suggestion, of nature's compulsions; it doubts its own sensations and trusts only in instruments and averages.
wish future-happiness world
I wish there could be an international peace conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own conviction is that the future happiness of the world depends in no small measure on them and on the librarians.
inspirational lonely food
No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
spring thinking light
April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
real book love-life
When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.
inspirational falling-in-love real
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
beautiful cities mad
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
inspirational wedding literature
The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.