Don Marquis - Person Quotes

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Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
It is to old age that we look for reimbursement, the most of us. And most of us look in vain. For the most of us have been wrenched and racked, in one way or another, until old age is the most trying time of all.
In the Almost Perfect State every person shall have at least ten years before he dies of easy, carefree, happy living... things will be so arranged economically that this will be possible for each individual.

Don Marquis
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when reading.

Don Marquis
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Don Marquis
A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

Don Marquis
Now and then
there is a person born
who is so unlucky
that he runs into accidents
which started out to happen to somebody else.

Don Marquis
We shall know that the Almost Perfect State is here when the kind of old age each person wants is possible to him. Of course, all of you may not want the kind we want... some of you may prefer prunes and morality to the bitter end.

Don Marquis
He i said is afraid of a vacuum what is there in a vacuum to make one afraid said the flea there is nothing in it i said and that is what makes one afraid to contemplate it a person can t think of a place with nothing at all in it without going nutty and if he tries to think that nothing is something after all he gets nuttier

Don Marquis