Quote

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Don Marquis

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
Author
Humorist
Journalist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
Periods
Happiness
Happy
Interval
Intervals
Unhappiness

More quotes by Don Marquis

Image
Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.
Don Marquis
Image
Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
Don Marquis
Image
This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death I am alive!
Don Marquis
Image
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
Don Marquis
Image
You want to know whether I believe in ghosts? Of course I do not believe in them. If you had known as many of them as I have, you would not believe in them either.
Don Marquis
Image
It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
Don Marquis
Image
what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and greenery of the eartheach generation wastes a little moreof the future with greed and lust for riches
Don Marquis
Image
Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the farm
Don Marquis
Image
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
Don Marquis
Image
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
Don Marquis
Image
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
Don Marquis
Image
it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty
Don Marquis
Image
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.
Don Marquis
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 the gods towards their civilization.
Don Marquis
Image
Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high give up the dream.
Don Marquis
Image
An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.
Don Marquis
Image
There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
Don Marquis
Image
I would rather start a family than finish one.
Don Marquis
Image
Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat
Don Marquis
Image
Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.
Don Marquis