Christopher Morley Quotes

American - Author | May 5, 1890 - March 28, 1957

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

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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

YouParadePretendOrderGoingGet

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.

Christopher Morley

HabitEffortChildMindSmallTake

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

Christopher Morley

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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

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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.

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ManTrainingLearnYouWayFirst

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

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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.

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

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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

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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

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