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Christopher Morley Quotes and Quotations
New York, the nation's thyroid gland. A town that has no ceiling price, A town of double-talk; A town so big men name her twice, Like so: 'N'Yawk, N'Yawk.' We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up. All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people. There are three ingredients in the good life; learning, earning and yearning. Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear. No man is lonely while eating spaghetti - it requires so much attention. The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas. If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them. The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. My theology, briefly, Is that the universe Was dictated But not signed. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature. There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried, unresisting, with the current. They float through easy days. They live, unquestioning, in the moment. 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. There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way. There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way. Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. If we all 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 tell them that they loved them. |