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.
About Christopher Morley
Christopher Darlington Morleywas an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. He also produced stage productions for a few years and gave college lectures.
More quotes from Christopher Morley
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
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.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
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.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
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.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
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.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it’s usually too late?
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
All students can learn.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
God made man merely to hear some praise of what he’d done on those Five Days.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
If we discovered that we only had 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.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
Only the sinner has the right to preach.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
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.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
There is only one rule for being a good talker – learn to listen.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
New York, the nation’s thyroid gland.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
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.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
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.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn’t so.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
In every man’s heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
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.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
The trouble with wedlock is that there’s not enough wed and too much lock.
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet