Christopher Morley Quotes

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. - Christopher Morley

There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published. - Christopher Morley

There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner. - Christopher Morley

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas. - Christopher Morley

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock. - Christopher Morley

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. - Christopher Morley

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came. - Christopher Morley

The greatest poem ever known
Is one all poets have outgrown:
The poetry, innate, untold,
Of being only four years old. - Christopher Morley

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people. - Christopher Morley

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. - Christopher Morley

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