Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth5 May 1890
CountryUnited States of America
truth facts prejudice
Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.
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.
truth safety hours
Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.
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
When you give someone a book, you dont give him just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the possibility of a whole new life.
life travel men
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
wisdom communication advice
There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
fake-people people enemy
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
moving thinking people
People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.
good-night wish watches
The little Plumpuppets are fairies of beds; They have nothing to do but watch sleepyheads; They turn down the sheets and they tuck you in tight, And dance on your pillow to wish you good night!
running baby gratitude
Standing by the crib of one's own baby, with that world - old pang of compassion and protectiveness toward this so little creature that has all its course to run, the heart flies back in yearning and gratitude to those who felt just so toward one's self. Then for the first time one understands the homely succession of sacrifices and pains by which life is transmitted and fostered down the stumbling generations of men.
children years childhood
The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.
men creation-of-man done
God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
book winning years
The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.