Quotes by Marquis, Don

"Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever."

Marquis, Don on age and aging   

"Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint"

Marquis, Don on difficulties   

"A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings."

Marquis, Don on action   

"I would rather start a family than finish one."

Marquis, Don on family   

"Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes."

Marquis, Don on fishing   

"Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness."

Marquis, Don on happiness   

"Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity."

Marquis, Don on honesty   

"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control."

Marquis, Don on honesty   

"An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it."

Marquis, Don on ideas
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"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all."

Marquis, Don on ideas   

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

Marquis, Don on inheritance   

"a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat"

Marquis, Don on insects   

"I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column."

Marquis, Don on journalism and journalists   

"now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else."

Marquis, Don on misfortunes   

"There is nothing so habit-forming as money."

Marquis, Don on money   

"An optimist is a man who has never had much experience."

Marquis, Don on optimism   

"In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent."

Marquis, Don on parents and parenting
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"A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists."

Marquis, Don on pessimism
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"Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."

Marquis, Don on poetry and poets   

"Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind."

Marquis, Don on poetry and poets   

"Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong."

Marquis, Don on politics   

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."

Marquis, Don on procrastination
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"prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into"

Marquis, Don on prohibition   

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

Marquis, Don on punctuality   

"Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher."

Marquis, Don on science   

"Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at."

Marquis, Don on success   

"Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it."

Marquis, Don on success   

"Blood will tell, but often it tells too much."

Marquis, Don on blood
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"Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything."

Marquis, Don on bores and boredom   

"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"

Marquis, Don on cats   

"If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you."

Marquis, Don on thoughts and thinking   

"When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue."

Marquis, Don on virtue   

"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."

Marquis, Don on work   

"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?"

Marquis, Don on work   

"I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well."

Marquis, Don on writers and writing   

"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"

Marquis, Don on uncategorised   

"Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be. We shall have a long white beard and long white hair; we shall not walk at all, but recline in a wheel chair and bellow for alcoholic beverages; in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand, and write ribald songs against organized society; strapped to one arm of our chair will be a forty-five calibre revolver, and we shall shoot out the lights when we want to go to sleep, instead of turning them off; when we want air we shall throw a silver candlestick through the front window and be damned to it; we shall address public meetings in a vein of jocund malice. We shall but we dont wish to make any one envious of the good time that is coming to us We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonoured, and disorderly old age. "

Marquis, Don on uncategorised   

"ihave often noticed thatancestors never boastof the descendants who boastof ancestors i wouldrather start a family thanfinish one blood will tell but oftenit tells too much"

Marquis, Don on uncategorised