Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be. We shall have a long white beard and long white hair; we shall not walk at all, but recline in a wheel chair and bellow for alcoholic beverages; in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand, and write ribald songs against organized society... We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonoured, and disorderly old age.
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience. - Don Marquis
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
- Don Marquis
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?' - Don Marquis
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towar… - Don Marquis
I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towar…
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. - Don Marquis
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. - Don Marquis
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint. - Don Marquis
Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely s… - Don Marquis
Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely s…
In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going. - Don Marquis
In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. - Don Marquis
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
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