Christopher Morley

"Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty ye…"

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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?"