228 Quotes by Christopher Morley

The pronouns, child, were You and I, / We might as well confess; / But, ah, the mischief-making verb / I leave to you to guess!

Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man’s iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.

When things are going on that have a strong vibration--what foreign correspondents love to call a "repercussion"--they cause a good deal of mind-quaking.