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. – Don Marquis
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: Whose? – Don Marquis
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 – Don Marquis
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