Christopher Morley was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet.
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“There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.”
Christopher Morley
“Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty”
“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning”
“The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas”
“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”
“Poetry, men attain By subtler pain More flagrant in the brain - An honesty unfeigned, A heart unchained, A madness well restrained”
“There was so much handwriting on the wall that even the wall fell down”
“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”
“Prophets were twice stoned - first in anger; then, after their death, with a handsome slab in the graveyard”
“Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.”