If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind. Don Marquis More Quotes by Don Marquis More Quotes From Don Marquis Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him. Don Marquis menfatherchildren He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country. Don Marquis citiesworkcountry There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble. Don Marquis troubletimecomforting If the world were not so full of people, and most of them did not have to work so hard, there would be more time for them to get out and lie on the grass, and there would be more grass for them to lie on. Don Marquis would-belyingpeople This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive! Don Marquis griefeyelife Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature. Don Marquis freedomliteratureamerica It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion. Don Marquis digestioncheerthinking Life's too damn funny for me to explain. Don Marquis damnlife If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you But if you really make them think, they'll hate you. Don Marquis An optimist is a man who has never had much experience. Don Marquis A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't Don Marquis If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind. Don Marquis A pessimist is a person who has to listen to too many optimists. Don Marquis Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be. We shall have a long white beard and long white hair; we shall not walk at all, but recline in a wheel chair and bellow for alcoholic beverages; in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand, and write ribald songs against organized society; strapped to one arm of our chair will be a forty-five calibre revolver, and we shall shoot out the lights when we want to go to sleep, instead of turning them off; when we want air we shall throw a silver candlestick through the front window and be damned to it; we shall address public meetings in a vein of jocund malice. We shall but we dont wish to make any one envious of the good time that is coming to us We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonoured, and disorderly old age. Don Marquis prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into Don Marquis Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at. Don Marquis There is nothing so habit-forming as money. Don Marquis Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity. Don Marquis somelikeablespiteintegrity Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. Don Marquis poetrywaitingrosebook Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them. Don Marquis manfatehappinesshands
