228 Quotes by Christopher Morley

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

They go in not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Laziness is always dignified, it is always reposeful. Philosophical laziness, we mean. The kind of laziness that is based upon a carefully reasoned analysis of experience. Acquired laziness. We have no respect for those who were born lazy; it is like being born a millionaire: they cannot appreciate their bliss. It is the man who has hammered his laziness out of the stubborn material of life for whom we chant praise and allelulia.

Night, I have discovered, has a faintly bitter taste, caused by its large ingredient of Un-attained Possibility.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City.New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle;Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness….There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory inTheir skyscraping sins; but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Der Hunger nach guten Büchern ist weiter verbreitet und hartnäckiger, als Sie glauben, aber in gewisser Weise trotzdem vielfach unbewusst. Die Menschen brauchen Bücher, wissen es aber nicht. Meistens wissen sie gar nicht, dass es die Bücher, die sie brauchen, überhaupt gibt.