Don Marquis Quotes

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But wotthehell
archy wotthehell
it s cheerio
my deario that
pulls a lady through.

Don Marquis
It is a cheering thought to think
that god is on the side of the best digestion

Don Marquis
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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Men could not think of THE ALMOST PERFECT STATE if they did not have it in them ultimately to create THE ALMOST PERFECT STATE.

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No insect likes human beings
and if you think you can see why
the only reason i tolerate you is because
you seem less human to me than most of them

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I met a toad
the other day by the name
of warty bliggens
he was sitting under
a toadstool
feeling contented
he explained that when the cosmos
was created
that toadstool was especially
planned for his personal
shelter from sun and rain
thought out and prepared
for him

Don Marquis
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

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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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A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.

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

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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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Again i thought i had settled that for them years ago it is as big as you think it is and it is spherical in shape

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

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For all of the creeds are false, and all of the creeds are true; And low at the shrines where my brothers bow, there will I bow too; For no form of a god, and no fashion Man has made in his desperate passion, But is worthy some worship of mine; Not too hot with a gross belief, Nor yet too cold with pride, I will bow me down where my brothers bow, Humble, but open eyed.

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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