Don Marquis Quotes

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• Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

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  Witty, Art, Procrastination

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

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

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  Money, Work, Men

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

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• There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.

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  Running, Country, Tyrants

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

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

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  Race, Life Sucks, Progress

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

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  Funny, Life, Witty

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

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  Education, Learning, Knowledge

  Don Marquis, William McCollum (1982). “Selected letters of Don Marquis”, Northwoods Pr

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

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  Blood, Too Much

  Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.136, Penguin

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

  Don Marquis

  Virtue

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• An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

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  Optimism, Guy, Experience

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

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• Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

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  Happiness, Happy, Inner Peace

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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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• 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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• As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his needs. And he clothes them with thunders and beauty, He clothes them with music and fire, Seeing not, as he bows by their altars, That he worships his own desire.

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  Men, Skulls, Clothes

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• Life's too damn funny for me to explain.

  Don Marquis

  Life, Damn

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

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  Bible, Jesus, Humble

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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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• An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

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  Believe, Responsibility, Science

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

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  Worry, Balance, Problem

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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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• An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.

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  Optimism, Optimist, Persons

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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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