Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth5 May 1890
CountryUnited States of America
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
life travel men
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
men creation-of-man done
God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
men violence faults
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
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.
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.
men brain world
Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.
men ideas world
The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.
truth men people
There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.
men crowns hardship
Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.
men earth planets
Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.
god heart men
Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.
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.