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In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
Category: Beauty Author: Christopher Morley
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The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
Category: Bicycling Author: Christopher Morley
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Lord! when you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Christopher Morley
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The greatest poem ever known
Is one all poets have outgrown:
The poetry, innate, untold,
Of being only four years old.
Category: Childhood Author: Christopher Morley
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We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
Category: Children Author: Christopher Morley
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All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
Category: Cities Author: Christopher Morley
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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Category: Clothing Author: Christopher Morley
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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.
Category: Conformity Author: Christopher Morley
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Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
Category: Dancing Author: Christopher Morley
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No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
Category: Food Author: Christopher Morley
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I had a thousand questions to ask God; but when I met him they all fled and didn't seem to matter.
Category: God Author: Christopher Morley
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Things of the spirit differ from things material in that the more you give the more you have.
Category: Helping and Making a Difference Author: Christopher Morley
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Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late, and not in the barroom downstairs?
Category: How True Author: Christopher Morley
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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
Category: Humankind Author: Christopher Morley
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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.
Category: Humor Author: Christopher Morley
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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.
Category: Life Author: Christopher Morley Source: Thunder on the Left
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The man who never in his life
Has washed the dishes with his wife
Or polished up the silver plate -
He still is largely celibate.
Category: Marriage Author: Christopher Morley Source: Washing the Dishes
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The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.
Category: Media and Journalism Author: Christopher Morley
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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
Category: Perseverance Author: Christopher Morley
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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
Category: Places Author: Christopher Morley Source: Shore Leave
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