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

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  Believe, Responsibility, Science

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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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• In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.

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  Church, Devil, Males

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

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  Optimism, Optimist, Persons

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

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  Bible, Jesus, Humble

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• In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

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  Children, Order, Grandparent

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

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  Virtue

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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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• 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 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.

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  Song, Writing, Winter

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

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• My heart hath followed all my days Something I cannot name.

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  Heart, Names, My Heart

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• If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.

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  Death, Children, Maturity

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• There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.

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  Time, Comforting, Trouble

  'archy does his part' (1935) 'comforting thoughts'

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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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• 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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