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Christopher Morley quotes

American Author May 5, 1890 – March 28, 1957

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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
Christopher Morley quote: "I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they..."
I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter. Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley quote: "No one appreciates the very special genius of your..."
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does. Christopher Morley
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
Christopher Morley quote: "The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its..."
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. Christopher Morley
The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win. Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley quote: "Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where..."
Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late? Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley quote: "Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which..."
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. Christopher Morley
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
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. Christopher Morley
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
Christopher Morley quote: "No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention."
No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention. Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley quote: "No man is lonely while eating spaghetti: it requires so much..."
No man is lonely while eating spaghetti: it requires so much attention. Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley quote: "That's what this country needs -- more books!"
That's what this country needs -- more books! Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley quote: "The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and..."
The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock. Christopher Morley

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