Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear. – Christopher Morley
Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, its the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it. – Christopher Morley
God made man merely to hear some praise of what hed done on those Five Days. – Christopher Morley
The trouble with wedlock is that theres not enough wed and too much lock. – Christopher Morley
I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind and it didnt seem to matter. – Christopher Morley
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature. – Christopher Morley
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. – 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
There is only one rule for being a good talker – learn to listen. – Christopher Morley
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. – Christopher Morley
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. – Christopher Morley
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. – Christopher Morley
Loafing needs no explanation and is its own excuse. – Christopher Morley
There is only one success — to be able to spend your life in your own way. – Christopher Morley
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. – Christopher Morley
Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare. – 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
It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace. – Christopher Morley
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. – Christopher Morley
