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Letter "D" » Don Marquis Quotes
«How often when they find a sage, As sweet as Socrates or Plato; They hand him hemlock for his wage, Or bake him like a sweet potato! Donald R»
Author: Don Marquis
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
baked potato, Donald, hemlock, sweet potato, wage
«You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and they're really excited for you? Well, that's what's happening to me right now.»
Author: Don Marquis
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
come up, excited, happening, high school, The Show
«Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat»
«Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.»
«When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'»
«A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.»
Author: Don Marquis
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
admission, admissions, imitating, reduced, sequel
«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.»
«There is nothing so habit-forming as money.»
«Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.»
Author: Don Marquis
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
backscratcher, dignified, dignifies, dignify, invent
«I would rather start a family than finish one.»
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