Don Marquis Quotes on Happiness
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oh i should worry and fret death and i will coquette there s a dance in the old dame yet toujours gai toujours gai
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dance mehitabel dance caper and shake a leg what little blood is left will fizz like wine in a keg
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amen said a beetle who had preceded him into the interior that is the way i feel myself is it not wonderful when one arrives at the place where he can give up his ambitions and resignedly nay even with gladness recognize that it is a far far better thing to be merged harmoniously in the cosmic all and this confortable situation in his midst so affected the marauding robin that he perched upon a blooming twig and sang until the blossoms shook with ecstacy he sang i have a good digestion and there is a god after all which i was wicked enough to doubt yesterday when it rained
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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.
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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.