Quote #63
Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.
More from Don Marquis
- Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
- Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
- Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
- Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
- prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into
- The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
- Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
- The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.