CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

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.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

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.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

All students can learn.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

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.

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.