Author Topic: ~ Don Marquis Quotes ~  (Read 2176 times)

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Don Marquis Quotes ~
« Reply #15 on: April 29, 2014, 11:27:06 AM »
It is better to be happy for the moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Don Marquis Quotes ~
« Reply #16 on: April 29, 2014, 11:27:43 AM »
A little while with grief and laughter And then the day will close; The shadows gather . . . what comes after No man knows.

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Don Marquis Quotes ~
« Reply #17 on: April 29, 2014, 11:28:16 AM »
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.

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Don Marquis Quotes ~
« Reply #18 on: April 29, 2014, 11:29:01 AM »
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!

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Don Marquis Quotes ~
« Reply #19 on: April 29, 2014, 11:29:41 AM »
The goal of all civilization all religious thought and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end.

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Don Marquis Quotes ~
« Reply #20 on: April 29, 2014, 11:30:57 AM »
There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him understood him interested ourself in his welfare. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These moments are the moments worth