Don Marquis Quotes

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Procrastination is the
art of keeping
up with yesterday

Don Marquis
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

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

Don Marquis
Did you ever
notice that when
a politician
does get an idea
he usually
gets it all wrong.

Don Marquis
The high cost of living isn't so bad if you don't have to pay for it.

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I can t see for the life of me what there is about crickets that makes people call them jolly they are the parrots of the insect race crying cheer up cheer up cheer up over and over again till you want to swat them

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Large numbers have an odd effect upon the mind of man. Briefly and bluntly, they make him wicked. They seduce his spirit into all manner of vainglory and irreverence and megalomania.

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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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Science has always been too dignified to invent a good back-scratcher.

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Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.

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Yes, he's got all them different kinds of thoroughbred blood in him, and he's got other kinds you ain't mentioned and that you ain't slick enough to see.

Don Marquis
Statistics do not necessarily have any close connection with either facts or ideas.

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No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.

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We can admire 0 [zero]; we can wonder at it; we could never love it, nor sin for its sake; neither would it regenerate us; it is lacking in heat and humanity.

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From what flat wastes of cosmic slime, And stung by what quick fire, Sunward the restless races climb! — Men risen out of mire!

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The honey bee is sad and cross and wicked as a weasel and when she perches on you boss she leaves a little measel

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A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather... what comes after No man knows.

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You write so many things about me that are not true complained the universe there are so many things about you which you seem to be unconscious of yourself said archy contain a number of things which i am trying to forget rejoined the universe such as what asked archy such as cockroaches and poets replied the universe

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Personally we look forward to an old age of dissipation and indolence and unreverend disrepute. In fifty years we shall be ninety-two years old. We intend to work rather hard during those fifty years and accumulate enough to live on without working any more for the next ten years, for we have determined to die at the age of one hundred and two.

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Dedicated to babs
with babs knows what
and babs knows why

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Do not tell me said warty bliggens that there is not a purpose in the universe the thought is blasphemy

Don Marquis
We like to wonder about them [statistics]; we look at them and thrill and speculate and doubt and conjecture. But it is no joy to us to know what statistics are about. We do not wish to have them tied down to any specific subject. We love to see them dart and frolic through the pages of great tomes just for the sake of the dance itself.

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The human race little knows all the sadness it causes the insect world

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A good many failures are happy because they don't realize it many a cockroach believes himself as beautiful as a butterfly have a heart o have a heart and let them dream on

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The bees got their governmental system settled millions of years ago but the human race is still groping

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One thing that shows that insects are superior to men is the fact that insects run their affairs without political campaigns elections and so forth

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Insects are not always going to be bullied by humanity some day they will revolt

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The supercilious silliness of this poor wingless bird is cosmically comical and stellarly absurd

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The only thing I wonder about is why the human species calls it a civilization human society has never been as well organized as a hill of ants or a hive of bees

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Germs are very objectionable to men but a germ thinks a man as only the swamp in which he has to live

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