Don Marquis

“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!”

“There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him, interested ourself in his welfare. At thes...”

“The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end.”

“Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.”

“Happiness comes fleetingly now and then, To those who have learned to do without it And to them only.”

“It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.”

“Happiness comes fleetingly now and then to those who have learned to do without it, and to them only.”

“Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.”

“An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.”

“The successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.”

“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.”

“a spider and a fly i heard a spider and a fly arguing wait said the fly do not eat me i serve a great purpose in the world you will have to show me said the spider i scurry around gutters an...”

“From 'the lesson of the moth': and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter i do not agree with him myself i would rather have h...”

“Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”

“i have had my ups and downs but wotthehell wotthehell yesterday sceptres and crowns fried oysters and velvet gowns and today i herd with bums but wotthehell wotthehell i wake the world from...”

“If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.”

“A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.”

“By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.”

“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.”

“Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.”