7 Don Marquis Quotes on Philosophy

Don Marquis quotes on philosophy

19. i met a toad the other day by the name of warty bliggens he was sitting under a toadstool feeling contented he explained that when the cosmos was created that toadstool was especially planned for his personal shelter from sun and rain thought out and prepared for him

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

28. there are more things twixt the vermiform appendix and nirvana than are dreamt of in thy philosophy horatio

32. A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

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

46. 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?

57. Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.