Christopher Morley Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Christopher Morley quotes, Christopher Morley sayings, and Christopher Morley proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does. Christopher Morley
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. Christopher Morley
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. Christopher Morley
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. Christopher Morley
New York, the nation's thyroid gland. Christopher Morley
It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace. Christopher Morley
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings. Christopher Morley
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings. Christopher Morley
No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention. Christopher Morley
It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace. Christopher Morley
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful, but the beauty is grim. Christopher Morley
April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go. Christopher Morley
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 Christopher Morley
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. Christopher Morley
Loafing needs no explanation and is its own excuse. Christopher Morley
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. Christopher Morley
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. Christopher Morley
A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. Christopher Morley
Only the sinner has the right to preach. Christopher Morley
Only the sinner has a right to preach. Christopher Morley
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. Christopher Morley
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. Christopher Morley
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from nature. Christopher Morley
Any 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
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. Christopher Morley
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. Christopher Morley
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. Christopher Morley
Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man’s iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay. Christopher Morley
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. Christopher Morley
When things are going on that have a strong vibration--what foreign correspondents love to call a "repercussion"--they cause a good deal of mind-quaking. Christopher Morley