Quote

When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.

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
Virtue
Else
Anything

More quotes by Don Marquis

Image
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.
Don Marquis
Image
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis
Image
A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.
Don Marquis
Image
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
Image
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
Image
The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.
Don Marquis
Image
Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
Don Marquis
Image
A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
Don Marquis
Image
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
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
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
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
Don Marquis
Image
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
Image
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
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
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
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
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
If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.
Don Marquis
Image
One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
Don Marquis