228 Quotes by Christopher Morley

But, as our friend Samuel Butler says, he that is stupid in little will also be stupid in much.

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.

To laugh at cheap jests is as base as to pray to cheap gods.

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

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.

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.

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn’t seem to matter.

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

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.