Don Marquis Famous Quotes
Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue.
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
"Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun."
"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him 'Whose'"
"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control."
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
"Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you But if you really make them think, they'll hate you."
Don Marquis Quotations
"If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life."
Cher
"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone."
Dwight D Eisenhower
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.
Arthur Rubinstein
"What is life An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams."
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
To read means to borrow to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts.
G C Lichtenberg
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
Abraham Lincoln
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
John Davidson Rockefeller Sr
"The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues 'non-negotiable demands' may have some of his demands met by a permissive university administration. But the greater his 'victory' the more he will have undermined the security of his own rights."
Richard Milhous Nixon
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.
Earl Warren
This only is denied to God the power to undo the past.
Agathon