Don Marquis Quotes - Page 4

Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.

Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.

I love you as New Englanders love pie!

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

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

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!

A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.

A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high; give up the dream.

Life is one damned kitten after another." Mehitabel the Alley Cat

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.