Don Marquis Quotations

A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.

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.

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!

Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.

It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

the high cost of living isnt so bad if you dont have to pay for it

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.