Don Marquis Quotes - Page 2

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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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• 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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• Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

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  Funny Inspirational, Business, Work

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

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  Heart, Names, My Heart

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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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• We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

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  Money, Mistake, Inheritance

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• A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.

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  Funny, Humor, Admission

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• He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

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  Country, Work, Cities

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• The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.

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  Hate, Want, Rate

  Don Marquis (1921). “Noah An' Jonah An' Cap'n John Smith: A Book of Humorous Verse”

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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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• 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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• Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

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  Funny, Birthday, Time

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• From 'the lesson of the moth': and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter i do not agree with him myself i would rather have half the happiness and twice the longevity but at the same time i wish there was something i wanted as badly as he wanted to fry himself

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  Philosophy, Wish, Patents

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• Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

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  Poetry, Saws, Blind

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

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• It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.

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  Believe, Ego, Would Be

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

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  Love, Life, Relationship

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• For him who fain would teach the world The world holds hate in fee- For Socrates, the hemlock cup; For Christ, Gethsemane.

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  Hate, Fate, World

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