Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth5 May 1890
CountryUnited States of America
spring thinking light
April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
kindness book lovely
The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.
god heart men
Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.
railroads gongs critics
A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
humanity being-human penalties
One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.
morning children interesting
The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.
teacher good-man unhappy
Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
education latin america
When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.
fashion people tables
There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.
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.
new-york home office-work
New 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 in Their skyscraping sins; but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.
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.
wish future-happiness world
I wish there could be an international peace conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own conviction is that the future happiness of the world depends in no small measure on them and on the librarians.