Alive Quote by Don Marquis

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

A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

— Don Marquis

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.

— Don Marquis

“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

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.

— Don Marquis

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

— Don Marquis

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

“Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.”

— Don Marquis

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

— Don Marquis

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

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

An old stomach reforms more whiskey drinkers than a new resolve.

— Don Marquis