Don Marquis - Man Quotes

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

Don Marquis
What man calls civilization
always results in deserts

Don Marquis
By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

Don Marquis
[Middle age] is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he'll feel just as good as ever.

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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
man has oppressed us for a million years
but he goes on steadily
cutting the ground from under
his own feet making deserts deserts deserts

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.

Don Marquis
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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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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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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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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Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.

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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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I do not see why men should be so proud insects have the more ancient lineage according to the scientists insects were insects when man was only a burbling whatisit

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As a representative of the insect world - I have often wondered On what man bases his claims to superiority everything he knows he has had to learn whereas we insects are born knowing everything we need to know

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