Famous Quotes / Don Marquis
52 Quotations by Don Marquis
- 1. A fierce unrest seethes at the core of all existing things: it was the eager wish to soar that gave ...
- 2. A hypocrite is a person - but who isn't?
- 3. A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?
- 4. A man thinks he amounts to a great deal, but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely somethi ...
- 5. A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
- 6. Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long e ...
- 7. An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
- 8. An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
- 9. An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
- 10. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
- 11. Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
- 12. Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
- 13. Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
- 14. Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how mis ...
- 15. Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
- 16. Friends, I beg you do not shirk your daily task of indolence.
- 17. Happiness comes fleetingly now and then to those who have learned to do without it, and to them only ...
- 18. Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
- 19. He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he cou ...
- 20. Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.