Morley
Morley
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.
mind library proud
A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.
wise dog dark
Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.
country america government
America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of his country.
truth safety hours
Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.
marriage men wife
The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.
media mind afternoon
The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.
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.
philosophy rain people
Truth and Beauty (perhaps Keats was wrong in identifying them: perhaps they have the relation of Wit and Humour, or Rain and Rainbow) are of interest only to hungry people. There are several kinds of hunger. If Socrates, Spinoza, and Santayana had had free access to a midnight icebox we would never have heard of them. Shall I be ashamed of my little mewing truths?... I ask to be forgiven: they are such tiny ones.
book soul special
We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.
poetry together groups
Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.
literature gideon too-late
Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?
love friendship people
If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
running book science
Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.