Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue.
Quote by Don Marquis
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Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue.
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Don Marquis Quotes
- Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
- Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
- Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
- 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.
- The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
- Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
- Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
- A pessimist is a person who has to listen to too many optimists.
- An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
Best Quotes
- Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.
- My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.
- Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
- Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
- More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
- There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.
- Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.
- Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.
- I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
- The dearth of faith or religion is the death of existence. Because our existence must revolve around faith.