If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Yes, he's got all them different kinds of thoroughbred blood in him, and he's got other kinds you ain't mentioned and that you ain't slick enough to see. — 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
