Philadelphia was the first city to foresee the advantages of a Federal constitution and oatmeal as a breakfast food.
Travels in Philadelphia (1920) |
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 MorleyThe 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 MorleyWe visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.
Christopher MorleyMy theology, briefly,Is that the UniverseWas DictatedBut not Signed.
Christopher MorleyHappiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
Christopher MorleyThere is only one success … to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher MorleyWhy do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late, and not in the barroom downstairs?
Christopher MorleyApril prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
Christopher MorleyA million hearts here wait our call, All naked to our distant speech I wish that I could ring them all And have some welcome news for each.
Christopher Morley"Jerry," said Roger, "You are a upas tree. Your shadow is poisonous!"
Christopher MorleyBig shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
Christopher MorleyNo one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
Christopher MorleyIt's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.
Christopher Morley