Christopher Morley was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet.
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“If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.”
Christopher Morley
“All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.”
“People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.”
“It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature”
“Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing”
“Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.”
“Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.”
“The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.”
“Act like you expect to get into the end zone.”
“Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?”