Don Marquis quotes - page 3

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)
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
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
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
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.
Don Marquis
Men could not think of THE ALMOST PERFECT STATE if they did not have it in them ultimately to create THE ALMOST PERFECT STATE.
Don Marquis
i met a toad the other day by the name of warty bliggens he was sitting under a toadstool feeling contented he explained that when the cosmos was created that toadstool was especially planned for his personal shelter from sun and rain thought out and prepared for him.
Don Marquis
there are more things twixt the vermiform appendix and nirvana than are dreamt of in thy philosophy horatio.
Don Marquis
a robin said to an angleworm as he ate him i am sorry but a bird has to live somehow the worm being slow witted could not gather his dissent into a wise crack and retort he was effectually swallowed before he could turn a phrase.
Don Marquis
each generation wastes a little more of the future with greed and lust for riches.
Don Marquis
dance mehitabel dance caper and shake a leg what little blood is left will fizz like wine in a keg. (Don Marquis)
men talk of money and industry of hard times and recoveries of finance and economics but the ants wait and the scorpions wait for while men talk they are making deserts all the time getting the world ready for the conquering ant drought and erosion and desert because men cannot learn.
Don Marquis
the octopus's secret wish is not to be a formal fish he dreams that some time he may grow another set of legs or so and be a broadway music show.
Don Marquis
how beautiful is the universe when something digestible meets with an eager digestion how sweet the embrace when atom rushes to the arms of waiting atom.
Don Marquis
oh i should worry and fret death and i will coquette there s a dance in the old dame yet toujours gai toujours gai.
Don Marquis
breakfast breakfast i am full of breakfast and they are at breakfast in heaven they breakfast in heaven all s well with the world.
Don Marquis
dedicated to babs with babs knows what and babs knows why.
Don Marquis
i asked him why is it that you are so greatly favored ask rather said warty bliggens what the universe has done to deserve me.
Don Marquis
no insect likes human beings and if you think you can see why the only reason i tolerate you is because you seem less human to me than most of them.
Don Marquis
We shall know that the Almost Perfect State is here when the kind of old age each person wants is possible to him. Of course, all of you may not want the kind we want... some of you may prefer prunes and morality to the bitter end.
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 man has oppressed us for a million years but he goes on steadily cutting the ground from under his own feet making deserts deserts deserts. (Don Marquis)
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Don Marquis
Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
Don Marquis
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
Don Marquis
it wont be long now it won't be long till earth is barren as the moon and sapless as a mumbled bone.
Don Marquis