Christopher Morley (5 May 1890 – 28 March 1957) was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. He also produced stage productions for a few years and gave college lectures.
Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.
Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.
America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of his country.
People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.
Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.
Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.
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.
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.
A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution is, as far as possible, to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices; simply to do what you find yourself doing; to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible; to allow things to settle themselves, as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.