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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• What man calls civilization always results in deserts.

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  Men, Civilization, Desert

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

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

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  Bible, Jesus, Humble

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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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• 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.

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  Men, Long, Desert

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

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

  Don Marquis

  Virtue

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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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• 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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• Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

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  Happiness, Happy, Inner Peace

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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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• 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.

  Don Marquis

  Song, Writing, Winter

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

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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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• 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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• Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue

  Don Marquis

  Men, Literature, Virtue

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

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  Love, Life, Relationship

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

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  God, Wings, Wish

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

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

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  Honesty, Good Things, Profitable

  archys life of mehitabel (1933) "archygrams"

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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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