Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Greater
Minors
Values
Insects
Able
Creatures
Humans
Personality
Many
Value
Irritation
Cause
Estimate
Amount
Personalities
Causes
Minor
More quotes by Don Marquis
It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
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 the gods towards their civilization.
Don Marquis
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
Don Marquis
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis
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
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
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
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
I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.
Don Marquis
A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
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
Yes, he's got all them different kinds of thoroughbred blood in him, and he's got other kinds you ain't mentioned and that you ain't slick enough to see.
Don Marquis
A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.
Don Marquis
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
There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
Don Marquis
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
Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.
Don Marquis
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
Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
Don Marquis
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.
Don Marquis
