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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• 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 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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• Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

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  Happiness, Happy, Inner Peace

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

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  Virtue

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

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  Believe, Responsibility, Science

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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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• 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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• It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.

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  Work Out, My Family, Observation

  Don Marquis (2013). “The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel”, p.395, Doubleday

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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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