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


Christopher Morley

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Yawn. String-on-a-stick.
Fine. I'll come out and chase it
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PATRICK MORLEY
A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.
JOHN MORLEY
Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in m...
MORLEY SAFER
Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.
MORLEY SAFER
I really feel stateless, which is not bad, because I always felt a man without a country was not enc...
MORLEY SAFER
When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy....
MORLEY SAFER
I'm just wondering whether going back to the mundane bread-and-butter stuff of legal work must be ki...
MORLEY SAFER
Has it changed the way you look at the rest of your life?
MORLEY SAFER
In those long months of listening to those horrible stories, dreadful stories, how did you get throu...
MORLEY SAFER
Yes, it will. It absolutely will.
MORLEY SAFER
Pilgrims who are looking for a cure are soon looking for a curio.
MORLEY SAFER
The BBC is a perfect example of uncontrolled growth, [occupying] old churches and manor houses, the ...
MORLEY SAFER
BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a hone...
MORLEY SAFER
Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.
MORLEY SAFER
Labels are devices for saving talkative persons the trouble of thinking
JOHN MORLEY
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart
JOHN MORLEY
All religions die of one disease - that of being found out
JOHN MORLEY
It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, however, it is absolutely ess...
ROBERT MORLEY
I have little patience with anyone who is not self-satisfied. I am always pleased to see my friends,...
ROBERT MORLEY
Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautifu...
MORLEY SAFER
As the kind of movie star that you were, certainly you could be a dictator, ... You could say, 'I wa...
MORLEY SAFER
The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.
ROBERT MORLEY
The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The othe...
ROBERT MORLEY
When I grow up, I want to have an exhibit called 'American Motel.'
MORLEY SAFER
Everything they said she has to be she's contradicted. She's small and has a tough look, her face is...
PAUL MORLEY
It was just a bang and then I heard sirens.
JOHN MORLEY
You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.
MORLEY SAFER
McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determina...
MORLEY SAFER
The market appeared at first sight to take some heed from the Reserve Bank's recent warnings, with a...
HOWARD MORLEY
People coming from Lakeview Drive have trouble getting out at that intersection. I just came from th...
DENNIS MORLEY
It should help slow things down through the rest of town.
DENNIS MORLEY