Quotes
Quotes - Morley
Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.
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. - Inward Ho.
There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way. Morrie Schwartz, in "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom -Christopher Morley.
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
If we all 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 tell them that they loved them.
If we discovered that we had only 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. -Christopher Morley.
If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
The courage of the Poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
Only the sinner has a right to preach.
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
He who hates vice hates men.
