Don Marquis Quotes
I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.
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.
No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.
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
That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.
It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.
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 little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.
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
Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.
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!
Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high; give up the dream.
Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.
Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
With regard to ghosts, while we have never believed in them, we have always been afraid of them.
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.
you want to knowwhether i believe in ghostsof course i do not believe in themif you had knownas many of them as i haveyou would notbelieve in them either
my master is the same as godwhen he thumps with his handpeople bring us hamburg steaksat any eating stand "pete s holiday
It is better to be happy for the moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
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!
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
The goal of all civilization all religious thought and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end.
Happiness comes fleetingly now and then To those who have learned to do without it And to them only.
Happiness comes fleetingly now and then to those who have learned to do without it and to them only.
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
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!
The successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
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.
