Christopher Darlington Morley quotes and words of wisdom

"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."
Found in the topic Humor.

"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."
Found in the topic Life.

"A human being; and ingenious assembly of portable plumbing."
Found in the topic Body.

"In every man"s heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty."
Found in the topic Beauty.

"Things of the spirit differ from things material in that the more you give the more you have."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning."
Found in the topic Learn.

"There was so much handwriting on the wall That even the wall fell down."
Found in the topic Word.

"There is only one rule for being a good talker ? learn to listen."
Found in the topic Listen.

"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."
Found in the topic Live.

"Read every day something no one else is reading. Think every day something no one else is thinking. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity."
Found in the topic Conformity.

"Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting."
Found in the topic Importance.

"April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go."
Found in the topic Spring.

"Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where its usually too late, and not in the barroom downstairs?"
Found in the topic Bible.

"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does."
Found in the topic Conversation.

"If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn"t so."
Found in the topic Forget.

"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."
Found in the topic Pretend.

"My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed."
Found in the topic Theology.

Interesting Quotes

Go ahead, make my day.Dean Riesner, Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry in "Sudden Impact", 1983

It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.Jerome K Jerome