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1. "We've had bad luck with our kids – they've all grown up." ~ Christopher Morley
2. "Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be "Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!" ~ Christopher Morley
3. "Big shots are just little shots that keep shooting." ~ Christopher Morley
4. "Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men." ~ Christopher Morley
5. "That's why I call this place the Haunted Bookshop. Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven't read. Poor uneasy spirits, they walk and walk around me. There's only one way to lay the ghost of a book, and that is to read it." ~ Christopher Morley
6. "The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came." ~ Christopher Morley
7. "Long ago I fell back on books as the only permanent consolers. They are the one stainless and unimpeachable achievement of the human race. It saddens me to think that I shall have to die with thousands of books unread that would have given me noble and unblemished happiness." ~ Christopher Morley
8. "My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated, but not signed." ~ Christopher Morley
9. "Lord! when you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book." ~ Christopher Morley
10. "Do you know why people are reading more books now than ever before? Because the terrific catastrophe of the war has made them realize that their minds are ill. The world was suffering from all sorts of mental fevers and aches and disorders, and never knew it. Now our mental pangs are only too manifest. We are all reading, hungrily, hastily, trying to find out—after the trouble is over—what was the matter with our minds." ~ Christopher Morley
11. "That's when a woman finds herself--when she's in love. I don't care if she is old or fat or homely or prosy. She feels that little flutter under her ribs and she drops from the tree like a ripe plum." ~ Christopher Morley
12. "...but if you're smart you don't hold up your hand in class and ask to be called on." ~ Christopher Morley
13. "No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does." ~ Christopher Morley
14. "Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain." ~ Christopher Morley
15. "There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen." ~ Christopher Morley
16. "High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead." ~ Christopher Morley
17. "In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty." ~ Christopher Morley
18. "Dancing is a 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
19. "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." ~ Christopher Morley
20. "A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing." ~ Christopher Morley
21. "Act like you expect to get into the end zone." ~ Christopher Morley
22. "All students can learn." ~ Christopher Morley
23. "The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking." ~ Christopher Morley
24. "The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness." ~ Christopher Morley
25. "Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it." ~ Christopher Morley
26. "There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book." ~ Christopher Morley
27. "A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is different from other trades. People don't know they want books. I can see just by looking at you that your mind is ill for lack of books but you are blissfully unaware of it!" ~ Christopher Morley
28. "Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries." ~ Christopher Morley
29. "Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men." ~ Christopher Morley
30. "That's what this country needs -- more books!" ~ Christopher Morley
31. "Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error." ~ Christopher Morley
32. "It's funny how we hate to face realities. I knew a commuter once who rode in town every day on the 8.13. But he used to call it the 7.73. He said it made him feel more virtuous." ~ Christopher Morley
33. "It's in books that most of us learn how splendidly worth-while life is." ~ Christopher Morley
34. "The fact that Holmes had earlier lodgings in Montague Street (alongside the British Museum) is forgotten. That was before Watson and we must have Watson too." ~ Christopher Morley
35. "Life's a lot different from what people pretend. That's why pretending is fun. I used to think it was some special wickedness of my own that made such queer things happen. Now I'm beginning to guess that everybody's like that." ~ Christopher Morley
36. "I went to the theatre with the author of a successful play. He insisted on explaining everything. He told me what to watch, the details of the direction, the errors of the property man, the foibles of the star. He anticipated all of my surprises and ruined the evening. Never again! And mark you, the greatest author of all made no such mistake." ~ Christopher Morley
37. "Summer was over, and we were no longer young, but there were great things before us." ~ Christopher Morley
38. "Overhead the night was a superb arch of clear frost, sifted with stars." ~ Christopher Morley
39. "It's one of the uncanniest things I know to watch a real book on its career?it follows you and follows you and drives you into a corner and makes you read it." ~ Christopher Morley
40. "No man is lonely while eating spaghetti:it requires so much attention." ~ Christopher Morley
41. "Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting." ~ Christopher Morley
42. "There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way." ~ Christopher Morley
43. "There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning." ~ Christopher Morley
44. "Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water." ~ Christopher Morley
45. "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
46. "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
47. "All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful, but the beauty is grim." ~ Christopher Morley
48. "Laughter and prayer are the two noblest habits of man; they mark us off from the brutes." ~ Christopher Morley
49. "If we discovered that we had only 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." ~ Christopher Morley
50. "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 inTheir skyscraping sins; but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly." ~ Christopher Morley
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