The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
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Christopher Morley
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About Christopher Morley
Christopher Darlington Morley was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. He also produced stage productions for a few years and gave college lectures.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Christopher MorleyThere is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature.
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.
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
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There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
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 are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
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.
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
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.
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
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.
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.