Morley
Morley
latter matter matters says speech three
Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter matters the least
based charge commission enable fact operate outside percentage scale
The fact that they don't charge commission based on a percentage scale does not, in our view, enable them to operate outside the act.
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.
book errors hunger
Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.
new-york cities literature
New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
country book needs
That's what this country needs -- more books!
everlasting fascinating corners
The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
political slumps commodity
Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.