Quote #41
Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
More from Don Marquis
- fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.
- Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
- 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.
- Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
- Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
- How often when they find a sage, As sweet as Socrates or Plato; They hand him hemlock for his wage, Or bake him like a sweet potato!
- Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
- I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.