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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.
— Don Marquis
A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?
— Don Marquis
I am never so happy aswhen I am broke, and lately I have been happy all the time. - Mehitabel the Cat
— Don Marquis
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
A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.
— Don Marquis
An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
— Don Marquis
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
The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.
— Don Marquis
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
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday
— Don Marquis
Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.
— Don Marquis
I suppose the human race is doing the best it can but hells bells thats only an explanation its not an excuse.
— Don Marquis
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
— Don Marquis
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
— Don Marquis
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
— Don Marquis
It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.
— Don Marquis
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable
to its possessor unless
it is kept under control. — Don Marquis
There's a dance in the old dame yet.
— Don Marquis
He's not getting out of here again ... But you don't have to go all Marquis de Sade on him either. Just kill him or let me.
— Rachel Caine
I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties.
— Marquis De Sade
I would rather start a family than finish one.
— Don Marquis
The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
— Don Marquis
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it. - DON MARQUIS
— John C. Maxwell
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
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
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
That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.
— Don Marquis
Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.
— Don Marquis
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe it.
— Don Marquis
In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.
— Don Marquis
Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
— Don Marquis
Our is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
— Don Marquis
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
— Don Marquis
With regard to ghosts, while we have never believed in them, we have always been afraid of them.
— Don Marquis
One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
— Don Marquis
When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
— Don Marquis
There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
— Don Marquis
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
My master is the same as godwhen he thumps with his hand
people bring us hamburg steaks
at any eating stand pete s holiday — Don Marquis
A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.
— Don Marquis
Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
— Don Marquis
I love you as New Englanders love pie!
— Don Marquis
It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
— Don Marquis
Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
— Don Marquis
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
— Don Marquis
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
— Don Marquis
Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint'-archy the cockroach — Don Marquis
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
— Don Marquis
Don't have children: they deform women's bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
— Marquis De Sade
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
— Don Marquis
Life's too damn funny for me to explain.
— Don Marquis
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
Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
— Don Marquis
Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.
— Don Marquis
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to a man apostrophe s
pride
to see a woman
influence other women
more than he can
himself — Don Marquis
A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.
— Don Marquis
