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It is unfair to blame man too ...

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

Christopher Morley 175 quotes

New York, the nation's thyroid...

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Christopher Morley 175 quotes

Only the sinner has the right ...

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

Christopher Morley 175 quotes

Why do they put the Gideon bib...

Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?

Christopher Morley 175 quotes

Words are a commodity in which...

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

Christopher Morley 175 quotes

If we discovered that we only ...

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.

Christopher Morley 175 quotes

April prepares her green traff...

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

Christopher Morley 175 quotes

There is no mistaking a real b...

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

Christopher Morley 175 quotes

The everlasting lure of round-...

The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.

Christopher Morley 175 quotes

When you sell a man a book you...

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 175 quotes

That's what this country needs...

That's what this country needs -- more books!

Christopher Morley 175 quotes

Between ourselves, there is no...

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 175 quotes

The world has been printing bo...

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 175 quotes

Printer's ink has been running...

Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.

Christopher Morley 175 quotes

I wish there could be an inter...

I wish there could be an international peace conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own conviction is that the future happiness of the world depends in no small measure on them and on the librarians.

Christopher Morley 175 quotes

The human mind appears suddenl...

The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of sleep. Even when awake it is a victim of its own ill-adjustment, of disease, of age, of external suggestion, of nature's compulsions; it doubts its own sensations and trusts only in instruments and averages.

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Man is unconquerable because h...

Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be 'Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!

Christopher Morley 175 quotes

Mr. Gilbert had the earnest ma...

Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.

Christopher Morley 175 quotes

It's a good thing to turn your...

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

Christopher Morley 175 quotes

God made man merely to hear so...

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

Christopher Morley 175 quotes

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