8 Don Marquis Quotes on Ethics

Don Marquis quotes on ethics

13. each generation wastes a little more of the future with greed and lust for riches

22. a robin said to an angleworm as he ate him i am sorry but a bird has to live somehow the worm being slow witted could not gather his dissent into a wise crack and retort he was effectually swallowed before he could turn a phrase

30. A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?

34. An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

43. Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

49. If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind.

71. When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

72. When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.