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Don Marquis quotes: For him who fain would teach the world The world holds hate in fee- For Socrates, the hemlock cup; For Christ, Gethsemane. For him who fain would teach the world The world holds hate in fee- For Socrates, the hemlock cup; For Christ, Gethsemane.
Don Marquis quotes: A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't? A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?
Don Marquis quotes: I am never so happy aswhen I am broke, and lately I have been happy all the time. - Mehitabel the Cat I am never so happy aswhen I am broke, and lately I have been happy all the time. - Mehitabel the Cat
Don Marquis quotes: Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed? Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?
Don Marquis quotes: A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows. A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.
Don Marquis quotes: An optimist is a man who has never had much experience. An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
Don Marquis quotes: My heart hath followed all my days Something I cannot name. My heart hath followed all my days Something I cannot name.
Don Marquis quotes: The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality. The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
Don Marquis quotes: The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about. The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.
Don Marquis quotes: We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with. We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
Don Marquis quotes: Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday
Don Marquis quotes: Life is one damned kitten after another. Mehitabel the Alley Cat Life is one damned kitten after another. Mehitabel the Alley Cat
Don Marquis quotes: A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself. A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
Don Marquis quotes: Fishing: a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. Fishing: a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
Don Marquis quotes: Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out. Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.
Don Marquis quotes: Every honorable man is forced to yield to blackmail once or twice in his life, just for the sake of keeping peace in the community. Every honorable man is forced to yield to blackmail once or twice in his life, just for the sake of keeping peace in the community.
Don Marquis quotes: I suppose the human race is doing the best it can but hells bells thats only an explanation its not an excuse. I suppose the human race is doing the best it can but hells bells thats only an explanation its not an excuse.
Don Marquis quotes: Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Don Marquis quotes: Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
Don Marquis quotes: It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld. It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
Don Marquis quotes: If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.
Don Marquis quotes: It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well. It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.
Don Marquis quotes: Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down. Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.
Don Marquis quotes: It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion. It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.
Don Marquis quotes: Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat
Don Marquis quotes: it s cheeriomy deariothat pulls a lady throughexclamation point it s cheerio
my deario
that pulls a
lady through
exclamation point
Don Marquis quotes: Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. Honesty is a good thing,
but it is not profitable
to its possessor unless
it is kept under control.
Don Marquis quotes: The high cost of living isnt so bad if you dont have to pay for it The high cost of living isnt so bad if you dont have to pay for it
Don Marquis quotes: Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the farm Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the farm
Don Marquis quotes: By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing. By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.
Don Marquis quotes: A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
Don Marquis quotes: The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram. The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
Don Marquis quotes: Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into
Don Marquis quotes: I would rather start a family than finish one. I would rather start a family than finish one.
Don Marquis quotes: Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him. Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.
Don Marquis quotes: A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country. A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.
Don Marquis quotes: No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government. No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.
Don Marquis quotes: A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings. A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.
Don Marquis quotes: That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were. That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.
Don Marquis quotes: Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature. Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.
Don Marquis quotes: There's a dance in the old dame yet. There's a dance in the old dame yet.
Don Marquis quotes: A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work. A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.
Don Marquis quotes: In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going. In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.
Don Marquis quotes: Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong. Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
Don Marquis quotes: I look back on my lifeand it seems to me to bejust one damned kittenafter another I look back on my life
and it seems to me to be
just one damned kitten
after another
Don Marquis quotes: Our is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it. Our is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
Don Marquis quotes: Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
Don Marquis quotes: With regard to ghosts, while we have never believed in them, we have always been afraid of them. With regard to ghosts, while we have never believed in them, we have always been afraid of them.
Don Marquis quotes: One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream. One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
Don Marquis quotes: An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe it. An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe it.
Don Marquis quotes: It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else. It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
Don Marquis quotes: There is nothing so habit-forming as money. There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
Don Marquis quotes: Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Don Marquis quotes: The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat. The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat.
Don Marquis quotes: The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate. The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.
Don Marquis quotes: My master is the same as godwhen he thumps with his handpeople bring us hamburg steaksat any eating stand pete s holiday My master is the same as god
when he thumps with his hand
people bring us hamburg steaks
at any eating stand pete s holiday
Don Marquis quotes: A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer. A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.
Don Marquis quotes: Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis quotes: When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue. When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
Don Marquis quotes: When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose? When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?
Don Marquis quotes: Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles. Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
Don Marquis quotes: Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity. Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
Don Marquis quotes: It is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty It is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty
Don Marquis quotes: Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
Don Marquis quotes: Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Don Marquis quotes: Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella
Don Marquis quotes: Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue. Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
Don Marquis quotes: In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent. In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
Don Marquis quotes: I love you as New Englanders love pie! I love you as New Englanders love pie!
Don Marquis quotes: Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis quotes: Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything. Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
Don Marquis quotes: The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Don Marquis quotes: I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column. I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.
Don Marquis quotes: An old stomach reforms more whiskey drinkers than a new resolve. An old stomach reforms more whiskey drinkers than a new resolve.
Don Marquis quotes: There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble. There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
Don Marquis quotes: Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them. Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
Don Marquis quotes: Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint'-archy the cockroach Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint'
-archy the cockroach
Don Marquis quotes: It s too great ablow underlinedto a man apostrophe sprideto see a womaninfluence other womenmore than he canhimself It s too great a
blow underlined
to a man apostrophe s
pride
to see a woman
influence other women
more than he can
himself
Don Marquis quotes: Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive. Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
Don Marquis quotes: Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at. Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
Don Marquis quotes: He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country. He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.
Don Marquis quotes: Life's too damn funny for me to explain. Life's too damn funny for me to explain.
Don Marquis quotes: An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience. An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

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