Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
Christopher Morley
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
Journalist
Opinion Journalist
Poet
Writer
Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
Silly
Mankind
Crazy
Funny
Human
Portable
Humans
Plumbing
Ingenious
Assembly
More quotes by Christopher Morley
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.
Christopher Morley
The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.
Christopher Morley
The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.
Christopher Morley
When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.
Christopher Morley
The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.
Christopher Morley
Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.
Christopher Morley
Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.
Christopher Morley
Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.
Christopher Morley
Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!
Christopher Morley
Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
Christopher Morley
Blessed is the satirist and blessed the ironist blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.
Christopher Morley
New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
Christopher Morley
God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
Christopher Morley
Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink That is the finest of suppers, I think When I'm grown up and can have what I please, I think I shall always insist upon these.
Christopher Morley
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
Christopher Morley
One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.
Christopher Morley
A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.
Christopher Morley
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
Christopher Morley
The plural of spouse is spice.
Christopher Morley
April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
Christopher Morley
