For him who fain would teach the world The world holds hate in fee- For Socrates, the hemlock cup; For Christ, Gethsemane. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
“How often when they find a sage As sweet as Socrates or Plato They hand him hemlock for his wage Or bake him like… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
For all of the creeds are false, and all of the creeds are true; And low at the shrines where my brothers bow, there… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
“Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.” — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
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… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
