Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth5 May 1890
CountryUnited States of America
Christopher Morley quotes about
book reading thinking
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.
inspirational success good-life
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
dog men puppy
The censure of a dog is something no man can stand.
inspirational life positive
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
absurd claims life maddening others spend success
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it
accepted people violent yesterday
There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.
character hindrance simplicity subtlety
Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.
attain brain heart honesty madness men pain restrained
Poetry, men attain By subtler pain More flagrant in the brain - An honesty unfeigned, A heart unchained, A madness well restrained
preach sinner
Only the sinner has a right to preach
bad mind silly
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, 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.
graveyard handsome prophets twice
Prophets were twice stoned - first in anger; then, after their death, with a handsome slab in the graveyard
fell wall
There was so much handwriting on the wall that even the wall fell down
great ideas income man whose
The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas
informal women
Informal is what women always say they're going to be and never are