155 Quotes by Don Marquis

Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, “Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?

Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the farm.

One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don’t change diapers in midstream.

Life’s too damn funny for me to explain.

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.

When you can’t have anything else, you can have virtue.

Yes, he’s got all them different kinds of thoroughbred blood in him, and he’s got other kinds you ain’t mentioned and that you ain’t slick enough to see.

The best good that you can possibly achieve is not good enough if you have to strain yourself all the time to reach it. A thing is only worth doing, and doing again and again, if you can do it rather easily, and get some joy out of it.

Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella.