Christopher Morley

If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them.

If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them.

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas.

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

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti - it requires so much attention.

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.

There are three ingredients in the good life learning earning and yearning.

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

Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution ... is as far as possible to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices simply to do what you find yourself doing to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible to allow things to settle themselves as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

New York the nation's thyroid gland.

A town that has no ceiling price A town of double-talk A town so big men name her twice Like so: 'N'Yawk N'Yawk.'

New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City.New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle;Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness_.There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory inTheir skyscraping sins; but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

We have all sorts of conditions of booksellers: one is fanatic on the subject of libraries. He thinks that every public library should be dynamited. Another thinks that moving pictures will destroy the book trade. What rot! Surely everything that arouses people's minds, that makes them alert and questing, increases their appetite for books. - Roger Mifflin

They go in not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

There is only one success _ to be able to spend your life in your own way.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.