Don Marquis Quotes
The females of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat.
Friends, I beg you do not shirk your daily task of indolence.
I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel, and by nightfall, it's a paragraph in my column.
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.
Happiness comes fleetingly now and then to those who have learned to do without it, and to them only.
The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end.
There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him, interested ourself in his welfare. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These moments are the moments worth living.
A fierce unrest seethes at the core of all existing things: it was the eager wish to soar that gave the gods their wings.
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
The successful people are the ones who can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at.