Quotes by Christopher Morley
Loafing needs no explanation and is its own excuse.
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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
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The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.
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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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Things of the spirit differ from things material in that the more you give the more you have.
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Lord! When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue. You sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.
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All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
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Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.
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April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
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Read, 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 continually be part of unanimity.
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Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late, and not in the barroom downstairs?
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By the time the youngest children have learned to keep the house tidy, the oldest grandchildren are on hand to tear it to pieces.
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