Don Marquis Quotes

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

Pity the meek for they shall inherit the earth.

Friends I beg you do not shirk your daily task of indolence.

you want to knowwhether i believe in ghostsof course i do not believe in themif you had knownas many of them as i haveyou would notbelieve in them either

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!

fire is beautifuland we know that if we gettoo close it will kill usbut what does that matterit is better to be happy for a momentand be burned up with beautythan to live a long timeand be bored all the while

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

With regard to ghosts, while we have never believed in them, we have always been afraid of them.

If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.