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An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
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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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.
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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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A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.
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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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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!
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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.
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Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.
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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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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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Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.
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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
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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
It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.
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.
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A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.
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
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
There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
Don Marquis
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
Don Marquis
Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.
Don Marquis
