Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
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Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
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Don Marquis Quotes
- Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
- 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.
- An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
- Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
- Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
- Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
- Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue.
- Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
- A pessimist is a person who has to listen to too many optimists.
Best Quotes
- Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
- Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
- I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.
- My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free.
- I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
- To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
- Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
- I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.
- We heed no instincts but our own.