Best 93 quotes of Don Marquis on MyQuotes

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

My heart hath followed all my days Something I cannot name.

Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, "Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?

No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.

Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella

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.

Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.

One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.

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

personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat.

the high cost of living isnt so bad if you dont have to pay for it

The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.

There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.

There was once a Hindu sage, who sat down on the banks of the Ganges and thought for seventy years about the millennium. Just as he arrived at the solution and was putting it into verse, a mosquito stung him and he forgot it again at once.

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 trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!

Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

What man calls civilization always results in deserts.

what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and greenery of the eartheach generation wastes a little moreof the future with greed and lust for riches

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Yes, he's got all them different kinds of thoroughbred blood in him, and he's got other kinds you ain't mentioned and that you ain't slick enough to see.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimist.

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

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.

If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.

i once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow s foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization

it wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have used it up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions can find a living on it .... what man calls civilization always results in deserts .... men talk of money and industry of hard times and recoveries of finance and economics but the ants wait and the scorpions wait for while men talk they are making deserts all the time getting the world ready for the conquering ant drought and erosion and desert because men cannot learn .... it wont be long now it wont be long till earth is barren as the moon and sapless as a mumbled bone

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

Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

they thought they were heroes when they were only cinders in the eye of humanity too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of irritation they are able to cause greater personalities than themselves

With regard to ghosts, while we have never believed in them, we have always been afraid of them.

you want to know whether i believe in ghosts of course i do not believe in them if you had known as many of them as i have you would not believe in them either