Quote #44
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!
More from Don Marquis
- 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.
- Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
- I say that I am myself, but what is this Self of mine But a knot in the tangled skein of things where chance and change combine?
- Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
- I would rather start a family than finish one.
- fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.
- Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.