Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Quote by Don Marquis
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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
- Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
- Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
- Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
- Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
- Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
- Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
- The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
- Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
- A pessimist is a person who has to listen to too many optimists.
- Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue.
Best Quotes
- Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
- If you do bad things to show how best you are, you'll fail. 'Cause people will see the kind of a stupid you are, not your wisdom.
- A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
- Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'.
- Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
- A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
- Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
- I never make a movie for awards consideration. I will use the hope of getting an Academy Award a) to honor the people who work so hard and also b) it's the greatest Good Housekeeping seal in the world. It's the greatest brand. It's as good as Louis Vuitton and Dior in the world of moviemaking. It's the Super Bowl.
- Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.