228 Quotes by Christopher Morley

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.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

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.

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

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

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.

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.

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.