Christopher Morley Quotes

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.

I believe words mean something. I really do.

Money is the best rule of commerce.

There's nothing as real as money.

If you have to design something, choose things that we need as opposed to frivolous things that we might just want for a month or two for bragging rights.

Money is a kind of poetry.

Words are the small change of thought.

Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other.

If you want an alternative currency, check out gold. It has stood the test of thousands of years as a store of value and medium of exchange.

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.

When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's not worth anything anymore. And the same is true of language.

Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5, NutraSweet or season three of 'Mad Men.'

Now, Gold and Silver contribute very little in their own nature to our Lives, for which all Earthly Things seem to have been created. Yet Men, as if they would make Nature asham'd of this, have agreed to make those Metals of equal vaue to all other things, to make 'em the Price and Measrue of all, and the Instruments of changing and exchanging whatever can be found good in this World.

The use of money and the use of words are analogous. Money is not always used to buy things which can be pointed to, e.g., when it buys permission to sit in a theatre, or a title, or one's life.

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.

I think there are some people for whom words are like food.

If you take the MY out of money, you're left with ONE.

Language is very important to me.

Words are what created our world. Words are what keep it going.

Argument is to me the air I breathe.

Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.

All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.

Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception.

I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.