Christopher Morley Quotations | Page 2

The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

All students can learn.

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

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

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.

Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution is, as far as possible, to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices; simply to do what you find yourself doing; to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible; to allow things to settle themselves, as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.

My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.