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| Don Marquis
A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong. Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint. Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them. Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column. I would rather start a family than finish one. In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent. Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles. Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it. Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher. The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat. The only way to keep hope in the world is to keep changing its population frequently.There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us. When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?' Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. |
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