155 Quotes by Don Marquis

Life is one damned kitten after another." Mehitabel the Alley Cat

fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter 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

What man calls civilization always results in deserts.

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.

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

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.

My heart hath followed all my days Something I cannot name.

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.