Don Marquis Quotes

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• Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

  Don Marquis

  Witty, Art, Procrastination

  archy and mehitabel (1927) "certain maxims of archy"

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• 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.

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  Civilization, Feet, Atheism

  Don Marquis (2013). “The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel”, p.72, Doubleday

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

  Don Marquis

  Money, Work, Men

  Quoted in Edward Anthony, O Rare Don Marquis (1962)

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

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  Quality, Needs, Too Much

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• 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

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  Humble, Ambition, Cockroaches

  Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.256, Penguin

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• 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... We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonoured, and disorderly old age.

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  Song, Writing, Winter

  "Modern Essays" edited by Christopher Morley, ("The Almost Perfect State"), 1921.

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

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  Funny, Hope, Witty

  Don Marquis (2012). “Archy and Mehitabel”, p.54, Anchor

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• Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause to greater personalities than themselves.

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  Irritation, Personality, Able

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• Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

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  Love, Life, Relationship

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• A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

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  Country, Literature, Gang

  Quoted in E Anthony O Rare Don Marquis (1962), ch.11.

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• Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

  Don Marquis

  Bible, Jesus, Humble

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

  Don Marquis

  Honesty, Good Things, Profitable

  archys life of mehitabel (1933) "archygrams"

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

  Don Marquis

  Virtue

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• 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.

  Don Marquis

  Men, Long, Desert

  Don Marquis (1950). “The lives and times of Archy and Mehitabel”, Doubleday Books

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• If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

  Don Marquis

  Moving, Reading, Writing

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

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  Night, Today, Bed

  Don Marquis (1916). “Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers”

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

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  Looks, Slippers, Manage

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

  Don Marquis

  Funny, Life, Witty

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• 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

  Money, Mistake, Inheritance

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

  Don Marquis

  Race, Life Sucks, Progress

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• 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.

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  Believe, Want, Ghost

  Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.254, Penguin

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• Insects have their own point of view about civilization 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.

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  Men, Thinking, Civilization

  Don Marquis (2013). “The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel”, p.71, Doubleday

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• fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while

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  Beautiful, Fire, Long

  Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.253, Penguin

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• I suppose the human race is doing the best it can but hells bells thats only an explanation its not an excuse.

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  Race, Bells, Hell

  Don Marquis (1935). “Archy does his part”

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• 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.

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  Funny, Dog, Blood

  Don Marquis (1922). “The Revolt of the Oyster”

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