Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth5 May 1890
CountryUnited States of America
absurd claims life maddening others spend success
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it
life travel men
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
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.
inspirational life motivational
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
funny life witty
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
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.
life broken-heart heartbroken
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
inspirational success good-life
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
inspirational life positive
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
bad mind silly
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
graveyard handsome prophets twice
Prophets were twice stoned - first in anger; then, after their death, with a handsome slab in the graveyard
bad grown luck
We've had bad luck with children; they've all grown up
attain brain heart honesty madness men pain restrained
Poetry, men attain By subtler pain More flagrant in the brain - An honesty unfeigned, A heart unchained, A madness well restrained
preach sinner
Only the sinner has a right to preach