We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?' — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and greenery of the eartheach generation… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go… — 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 a sweet potato!-Taking the Longer View” — Don Marquis Copy Share
For all of the creeds are false, and all of the creeds are true; And low at the shrines where my brothers bow, there will I bow too; For no form of a god, and no fashion Man has made in his desperate passion, But is worthy some worship of mine; Not too hot with a gross belief, Nor yet… — Don Marquis Copy Share
“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
