155 Quotes by Don Marquis

The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.

You want to know whether I believe in ghosts? Of course I do not believe in them. If you had known as many of them as I have, you would not believe in them either.

A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.

An old stomach reforms more whiskey drinkers than a new resolve.

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.

There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.

I love you as New Englanders love pie!

it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty