Don Marquis Quotes
Top 83 wise famous quotes and sayings by Don Marquis
Don Marquis Famous Quotes & Sayings
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For him who fain would teach the world The world holds hate in fee- For Socrates, the hemlock cup; For Christ, Gethsemane.
I am never so happy aswhen I am broke, and lately I have been happy all the time. - Mehitabel the Cat
Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?
A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.
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 most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
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.
I suppose the human race is doing the best it can but hells bells thats only an explanation its not an excuse.
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.
It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.
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
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
By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.
No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.
A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.
That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.
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.
In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.
One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
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.
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
when he thumps with his hand
people bring us hamburg steaks
at any eating stand pete s holiday
Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
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.
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
I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.
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.
Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint'
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