Don Marquis Short Quotes

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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

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I scurry around gutters and sewers and garbage cans

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An optimist is a guy
who has never had
much experience

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What man calls civilization
always results in deserts

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What in hell
have i done to deserve
all these kittens

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Procrastination is the
art of keeping
up with yesterday

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Dedicated to babs
with babs knows what
and babs knows why

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An old stomach reforms more whiskey drinkers than a new resolve.

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Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

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The high cost of living isnt so bad if you dont have to pay for it

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Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

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Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

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

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

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I have got you out here
in the great open spaces
where cats are cats.

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

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Coarse
jocosity
catches the crowd
shakespeare
and I
are often
low browed.

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Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.

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

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

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

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Each generation wastes a little more
of the future with greed and lust for riches

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A louse i used to know told me that millionaires and bums tasted about alike to him.

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

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Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.

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