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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.
Don Marquis
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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
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Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
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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.
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No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.
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fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while
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It wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have used it up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions can find a living on it.
Don Marquis
A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.
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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
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I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.
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personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble
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It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
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Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
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As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his needs. And he clothes them with thunders and beauty, He clothes them with music and fire, Seeing not, as he bows by their altars, That he worships his own desire.
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Life is one damned kitten after another. Mehitabel the Alley Cat
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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.
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The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
Don Marquis
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
He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.
Don Marquis
A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.
Don Marquis
Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
Don Marquis
