personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt!… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did… — 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
“it wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
“i have been used something fierce in my time but i am no bum sport archy i am a free spirit archy… — 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
