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Quotes of the Day for 5 May 2005 - Christopher Morley

Christopher Darlington Morley was born at Haverford, Pennsylvania on this day in 1890. He was valedictorian of the 1910 graduating class of Haverford College, then won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford. After moving to New York he not only wrote poetry and several popular novels but involved himself deeply in American literary life. He wrote a column for the New York Evening Post and edited a an insert which evolved into the Saturday Review of Books. In turn, this became the genesis of the Book of the Month Club. He helped Walt Whitman become "America's Poet", and edited two editions of Bartlett's.

There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

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

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

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

I hate to see men overdressed; a man ought to look like he's put together by accident, not added up on purpose.

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.
     - All from Christopher Morley, 1890 - 1957

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