Quote by Don Marquis
The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that

The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end. – Don Marquis

Other quotes by Don Marquis
Other Quotes from
Party Invitation
category

Where the hostess is handsome the wine is good. – French Proverb

[N]o party is any fun unless seasoned with folly. – Desiderius Erasmus

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked. – Evelyn Waugh

Random Quotes

Part of Obamas persona is self-reliance. Hes calm hes cool hes self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in opposition to Clintons sometimes needy, often undisciplined, emotionalism. – Dee Dee Myers

Category:
cool

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower. – Johann von Goethe

Category:
Support

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. – Sigmund Freud

Category:
Inner Child

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that hes the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong. – Dean Koontz

Category:
Change