Christopher Morley idézet

„Az életben csak egyféle siker létezik: ha úgy élhetsz, ahogyan te szeretnél.”

„Minden város őrült, de az őrület gáláns. Minden város szép, de a szépség zord.”

„Olvass minden nap olyasmit, amit senki más nem olvas. Gondolkodj, minden nap, valamin, amin senki más nem gondolkodik. Tegyél minden nap olyasmit, amit senki más nem tenne meg. Rosszat tesz az elmének, ha mindig egyhangúságban részesül.”

“That's what makes it worth while — I'm doing something that nobody else from Nazareth, Maine, to Walla Walla, Washington, has ever thought of.”

“Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years.”

“But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.”

“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.”

“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. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.”

“If we 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 stammer that they loved them.”

“No man is lonely while eating spaghetti:
it requires so much attention.”

“There is only one success … to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

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

“That's what this country needs -- more books!”

“High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.”

“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.”

“When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.”

“There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.”

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

“Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it”

“There's no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”

“Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.”

“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.”

“That's why I call this place the Haunted Bookshop. Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven't read. Poor uneasy spirits, they walk and walk around me. There's only one way to lay the ghost of a book, and that is to read it.”

“It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.”

“April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.”

“Philadelphia was the first city to foresee the advantages of a Federal constitution and oatmeal as a breakfast food.”

“Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late, and not in the barroom downstairs?”

“My theology, briefly,
Is that the Universe
Was Dictated
But not Signed.”

“We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.”

“Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.”

“The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.”