Don Marquis Men Quotations

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue

What man calls civilization always results in deserts.

No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.

As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his needs. And he clothes them with thunders and beauty, He clothes them with music and fire, Seeing not, as he bows by their altars, That he worships his own desire.

It wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have used it up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions can find a living on it.

I do not see why men sheould be so proud insects have the more ancient lineage according to the scientists insects were insects when man was only a burbling whatisit.

Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.

Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and greenery of the eartheach generation wastes a little moreof the future with greed and lust for riches

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