Don Marquis Quotes Page 3
Best 78 Quotes by Don Marquis – Page 3 of 3
“The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.”
“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.”
“The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.”
“There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.”
“There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.”
“There was once a Hindu sage, who sat down on the banks of the Ganges and thought for seventy years about the millennium. Just as he arrived at the solution and was putting it into verse, a mosquito stung him and he forgot it again at once.”
“Too many creatures – both insects and humans – estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause to greater personalities than themselves.”
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“We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.”
“What man calls civilization always results in deserts.”
“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?”
“When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.”
Archy and Mehitabel Quotes
“An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe it.”
“Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.”
Archyology Quotes
“Every honorable man is forced to yield to blackmail once or twice in his life, just for the sake of keeping peace in the community.”
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“It's too great a blow to a man's pride to see a woman influence other women more than he can himself.”
“With regard to ghosts, while we have never believed in them, we have always been afraid of them.”
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