Christopher Morley

Quotes

• “When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. ...”
• “Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; an...”
• “The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ...”
• “There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.”
• “There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
• “The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.”
• “The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.”
• “There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way.”
• “Act like you expect to get into the end zone.”
• “That's what this country needs -- more books!”