When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. - Christopher Morley
The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock. - Christopher Morley
There is only one success... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it. - Christopher Morley
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. - Christopher Morley
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, 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. - Christopher Morley
Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error. - Christopher Morley
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. - Christopher Morley
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. - Christopher Morley
When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book. - Christopher Morley
There is no one so grateful as the man to whom you have given just the book his soul needed and he never knew it. - Roger Mifflin - Christopher Morley
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. - Christopher Morley
Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age. - Christopher Morley
There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning. - Christopher Morley
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. - Christopher Morley
There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley
A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by. - Christopher Morley
There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way. - Christopher Morley
No man is lonely while eating spaghetti:it requires so much attention. - Christopher Morley
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. - Christopher Morley
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated, but not signed. - Christopher Morley
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning. - Christopher Morley
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 be always part of unanimity. - Christopher Morley
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversations as a dog does. - Christopher Morley
That's what this country needs -- more books! - Christopher Morley
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. - Christopher Morley
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. - Christopher Morley
If we discovered that we had only 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. - Christopher Morley
We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up. - Christopher Morley
A good book ought to have something simple about it. And, like Eve, it ought to come from somewhere near the third rib: there ought to be a heart beating in it. A story that's all forehead doesn't amount to much. - Christopher Morley