Christopher Morley Famous Quotes
"Humor 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."
"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."
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.
"My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed."
Cherish all your happy moments they make a fine cushion for old age.
Christopher Morley Quotations
"Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee."
Biblical Proverb
"When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."
Samuel Johnson
"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
Alexander Pope
Tis the advisor who suffers from bad advice.
Anonymous
We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
Harold S Geneen
"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
Dan Quayle
The whole life of man is but a point of time let us enjoy it.
Plutarch
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Albert Einstein
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
Sir Walter Besant
"Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you God only can do that but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction."
Tryon Edwards