Christopher Morley

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. ”

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. ”

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. ”

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. ”

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance. ”

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. ”

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. ”

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention. ”

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too. ”

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. ”