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The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
Christopher Morley
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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
Journalist
Opinion Journalist
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Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
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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.
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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.
Christopher Morley
Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
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It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future life.
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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.
Christopher Morley
April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
Christopher Morley
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
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There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.
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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!
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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
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Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
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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.
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We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
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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
If we 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 stammer that they loved them.
Christopher Morley
Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.
Christopher Morley
Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.
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