Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth5 May 1890
CountryUnited States of America
moving thinking people
People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.
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.
thinking avid humanity
Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of us also seems to regard himself as existing on a detached plane of observation, exempt (save in moments of avid crisis) from the strange whims of humanity en masse.
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.
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.
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.
spring thinking light
April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
book reading thinking
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.
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
character hindrance simplicity subtlety
Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.