Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
"Christopher Morley" was an United States/American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. He also produced stage productions for a few years and gave college lectures.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous artists! More Christopher Morley on Wikipedia.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.
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
We call a child's mind "small" simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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.
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
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.
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversations as a dog does.
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 be always part of unanimity.
When you give someone a book, you don't give him just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the possibility of a whole new life.
There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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