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“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”
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“Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?”

— Don Marquis

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

— Don Marquis

“An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.”

— Don Marquis

“Fishing: a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.”

— Don Marquis

“Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella”

— Don Marquis

“The wand waved; the Adam's Apple leapt, and they were off. What followed cannot be indicated typographically. But if a cat were a sawmill, and a dog were a gigantic cart full of tin cans bouncing through a stone paved street, and that dog and that cat hated each other and were telling each other so, it would sound much like it.”

— Don Marquis

“My youth i shall never forget
but there s nothing i really regret
wotthehell wotthehell
there s a dance in the old dame yet
toujours gai toujours gai”

— Don Marquis

“Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.”

— Don Marquis

“How often when they find a sage
As sweet as Socrates or Plato
They hand him hemlock for his wage
Or bake him like a sweet potato!-Taking the Longer View”

— Don Marquis

“I have been
used something fierce in my time but
i am no bum sport archy
i am a free spirit archy i
look on myself as being
quite a romantic character oh the
queens i have been and the
swell feeds i have ate
a cockroach which you are
and a poet which you used to be
archy couldn t understand
my feelings at having come
down to this i have
had bids to elegant feeds where poets
and cockroaches would
neither one be mentioned without a
laugh archy i have had
adventures but i
have never been an adventuress”

— Don Marquis

There's a dance in the old dame yet.

— Don Marquis

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint'
-archy the cockroach

— Don Marquis

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

— Don Marquis

“Justice ... is not inherent in the universe and what man has put there he uses when he uses it at all strictly for his own purposes the world is so sad that the only way to live with it is to laugh at it”

— Don Marquis

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

— Don Marquis

“I would rather start a family than finish one.”

— Don Marquis

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

— Don Marquis

“Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.”

— Don Marquis

“A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.”

— Don Marquis

“A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.”

— Don Marquis

“There is nothing so habit-forming as money.”

— Don Marquis

“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.”

— Don Marquis

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

— Don Marquis

What man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and greenery of the eartheach generation wastes a little moreof the future with greed and lust for riches

— 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

Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be. We shall have a long white beard and long white hair; we shall not walk at all, but recline in a wheel chair and bellow for alcoholic beverages; in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand, and write ribald songs against organized society ... We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonoured, and disorderly old age.

— Don Marquis

“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

“Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.”

— Don Marquis

“Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.”

— 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.”

— Don Marquis

“That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.”

— Don Marquis

The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.