Christopher Morley

“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.”

“From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.”

“The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.”

“Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.”

“A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.”

“Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.”

“In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.”

“All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.”

“Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.”

“The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.”

“I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind and it didn't seem to matter.”

“Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.”

“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.”

“No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.”

“The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.”