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Letter "D" » Don Marquis Quotes
«Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.»
«Now and then / there is a person born / who is so unlucky / that he runs into accidents/ which started out to happen / to somebody else»
Author: Don Marquis
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
accidents, now and then, unluckiest, unlucky
«Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.»
«Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.»
Author: Don Marquis
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
seduced, uplift, uplifted, uplifts
«We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.»
«Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.»
«The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.»
«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.»
«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 takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.»
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