228 Quotes by Christopher Morley

There is only one success, to be able to spend your life in your own way.

It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace. when a man's mother holds his child in her gladden arms he is aware of the roundness of life's cycle; of the mystic harmony of life's ways.

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

If there is any appalling, spiritually murderous sensation on earth, it is a knowledge that on a certain date or at a given time and place you have got to be somewhere doing some set, prescribed, definite thing.

Loafing needs no explanation and is its own excuse.

Big shots are only little shots who kept shooting.

A certain young man never knew / Just when to say whom and when who; / 'The question of choosing,' / He said, 'is confusing; / I wonder if which wouldn't do?'

There were two cheerful pronouns / And naught did them disturb: / Until they met, out walking. / A conjugative verb.

Only the sinner has a right to preach.