Quotes from Don Marquis

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

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

justice...is not inherent in the universe and what man has put there he uses when he uses it at all strictly for his own purposes the world is so sad that the only way to live with it is to laugh at it

i once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow s foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

With regard to ghosts, while we have never believed in them, we have always been afraid of them.

what kittens interrogation point

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

to hell with anything unrefined has always been my motto

An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you. If you really make them think, they'll hate you.

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.

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.