Quote by Don Marquis
a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquit

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

Other quotes by Don Marquis

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint. – Don Marquis

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funny
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Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. – Don Marquis

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Age
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And a cloud of enraptured, sporting, buzzing little creatures of silk-dust swept or hovered over the undulating picture. – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,

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Insects

If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive. – American Quaker Saying

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Insects

Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy. – Mark Twain

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Insects

As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized! – Mark Twain

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Insects

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Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, Just watch! – Bill Bradley

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If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a “fix” of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine. – Rob Stampfli

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Being grown up and in a serious relationship, Ive learned so much. Im happier than Ive every been. – Paris Hilton

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I dont think its a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chefs a fat pig. – Gordon Ramsay

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