Quotes by : Don Marquis

From 'the lesson of the moth':and before i could argue himout of his philosophyhe went and immolated....

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored....

Happiness comes fleetingly now and then to those who have learned to do without it and to them only.....

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred With maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand....

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Ideas pull the trigger but instinct loads the gun.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?

With regard to ghosts, while we have never believed in them, we have always been afraid of them.