Christopher Morley

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. ”

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going. ”

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them. ”

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. ”

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock. ”

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came. ”

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up. ”

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen. ”

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. ”

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. ”