Quote

It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.

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
Best
Think
Thinking
Cheering
Digestion
Cheer
Side
Sides
Thought

More quotes by Don Marquis

Image
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
Don Marquis
Image
Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.
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
When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
Don Marquis
Image
I would rather start a family than finish one.
Don Marquis
Image
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
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
Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?
Don Marquis
Image
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis
Image
Life is one damned kitten after another. Mehitabel the Alley Cat
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
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
Don Marquis
Image
No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.
Don Marquis
Image
Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue
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
Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
Don Marquis
Image
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.
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
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
Image
Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.
Don Marquis