Quotes from Don Marquis

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

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

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

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 whatsit

Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella

prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

you want to know whether i believe in ghosts of course i do not believe in them if you had known as many of them as i have you would not believe in them either

How often when they find a sage As sweet as Socrates or Plato They hand him hemlock for his wage Or bake him like a sweet potato!-Taking the Longer View

The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.

I am never so happy aswhen I am broke, and lately I have been happy all the time. - Mehitabel the Cat

my master is the same as god when he thumps with his hand people bring us hamburg steaks at any eating stand pete s holiday

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

they thought they were heroes when they were only cinders in the eye of humanity too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of irritation they are able to cause greater personalities than themselves

My heart has followed, all my days, something I cannot name.

There's a dance in the old dame yet.

it s cheerio my deario that pulls a lady through exclamation point

Every honorable man is forced to yield to blackmail once or twice in his life, just for the sake of keeping peace in the community.

The best good that you can possibly achieve is not good enough if you have to strain yourself all the time to reach it. A thing is only worth doing, and doing again and again, if you can do it rather easily, and get some joy out of it.

every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint' -archy the cockroach