Christopher Morley Men Quotations

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

Poetry, men attain By subtler pain More flagrant in the brain - An honesty unfeigned, A heart unchained, A madness well restrained

It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future life.

Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be "Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!

Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

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

There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.

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.

Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.

Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.

Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.

The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.

Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.

The censure of a dog is something no man can stand.