01UndatedBooks are the immortality of the race, the father and mother of most that is worth while cherishing in our hearts. To spread good books about, to sow them on fertile minds, to propagate understanding and a carefulness of life and beauty, isn't that high enough mission for a man?Christopher Morley / quote ↗
02UndatedRead, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, 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 be always part of unanimity.Christopher Morley / quote ↗
03UndatedHigh heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.Christopher Morley / quote ↗
04UndatedThe bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.Christopher Morley / quote ↗
05UndatedThere is only one success — to be able to spend your life in your own way.Christopher Morley / quote ↗
06UndatedThey go in not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.Christopher Morley / quote ↗
07UndatedWe have all sorts of conditions of booksellers: one is fanatic on the subject of libraries. He thinks that every public library should be dynamited. Another thinks that moving pictures will destroy the book trade. What rot! Surely everything that arouses people's minds, that makes them alert and questing, increases their appetite for books. - Roger MifflinChristopher Morley / quote ↗
08UndatedNew York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City.New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle;Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness….There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory inTheir skyscraping sins; but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.Christopher Morley / quote ↗
10UndatedA town that has no ceiling price A town of double-talk A town so big men name her twice Like so: 'N'Yawk N'Yawk.'Christopher Morley / quote ↗
11UndatedContinually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution ... is as far as possible to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices simply to do what you find yourself doing to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible to allow things to settle themselves as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.Christopher Morley / quote ↗
13UndatedThere are three ingredients in the good life learning earning and yearning.Christopher Morley / quote ↗
14UndatedAny 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.Christopher Morley / quote ↗
15UndatedThe unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas.Christopher Morley / quote ↗
16UndatedIf we all 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 tell them that they loved them.Christopher Morley / quote ↗
17UndatedIf we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them.Christopher Morley / quote ↗
19UndatedTime is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried unresisting with the current. They float through easy days. They live unquestioning in the moment.Christopher Morley / quote ↗
20UndatedMy theology briefly Is that the universe Was dictated But not signed.Christopher Morley / quote ↗
21UndatedAll cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.Christopher Morley / quote ↗
22UndatedIt is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature.Christopher Morley / quote ↗
24UndatedHumor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.Christopher Morley / quote ↗
