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Don Marquis

Don Marquis

American writer

Lived from: 1878 - 1937

Category: Comedians | Media | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 29 july 1878 Died: 29 december 1937

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  • It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
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  • Like all other zealous reformers we do what we do because we like doing it better than anything else.
    The almost perfect state
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  • 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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  • 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.
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  • Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
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  • Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat
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  • Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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  • Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
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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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  • Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
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  • Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.
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  • Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
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  • The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
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  • The universe is not friendly to despots, and they all perish sooner of later.
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  • There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
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  • We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
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  • We shall problably have nothing to say, but we intend to say it at great length.
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  • When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?
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  • When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
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  • Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
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