Don Marquis Quotes
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men talk of money and industry of hard times and recoveries of finance and economics but the ants wait and the scorpions wait for while men talk they are making deserts all the time getting the world ready for the conquering ant drought and erosion and desert because men cannot learn
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It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
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One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
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Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
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dedicated to babswith babs knows whatand babs knows why
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Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
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If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
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it wont be long now It won't be long till earth is barren as the moon and sapless as a mumbled bone
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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
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breakfast breakfasti am full of breakfastand they are at breakfastin heaventhey breakfast in heavenall s well with the world
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Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.
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there is alwaysa comforting thoughtin time of trouble whenit is not our trouble
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the octopus's secret wishis not to be a formal fishhe dreams that some time he may growanother set of legs or soand be a broadway music show
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there are more thingstwixt the vermiform appendixand nirvana than are dreamt ofin thy philosophy horatio
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i met a toadthe other day by the nameof warty bliggenshe was sitting undera toadstoolfeeling contentedhe explained that when the cosmoswas createdthat toadstool was especiallyplanned for his personalshelter from sun and rainthought out and preparedfor him
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what man calls civilization always results in deserts
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i asked himwhy is it that you are so greatly favoredask rathersaid warty bliggenswhat the universehas done to deserve me
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a little moreconversation revealedthat warty bliggens considers himself to bethe center of the saiduniversethe earth exists to grow toadstools for himto sit underthe sun to give him lightby day and the moonand wheeling constellationsto make beautifulthe night for the sake ofwarty bliggens
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it is a cheering thought to thinkthat god is on the side of the best digestion
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Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
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a robin said to anangleworm as he ate himi am sorry but a birdhas to live somehow theworm being slow witted couldnot gather hisdissent into a wise crackand retort he waseffectually swallowedbefore he could turna phrase
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We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
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Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
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oh i should worry and fretdeath and i will coquettethere s a dance in the old dame yettoujours gai toujours gai