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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

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. – Don Marquis

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Poetry
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One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: dont change diapers in midstream. – Don Marquis

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Change
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Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything. – Don Marquis

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Bores
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Other Quotes from
Insects
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The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey. – Andy Warhol

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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

Butterflies… not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures. – Elizabeth Goudge

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Insects

His Labor is a Chant — his Idleness — a Tune — oh, for a Bees experience of Clovers, and of Noon! – Emily Dickinson

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Insects

Random Quotes

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs. – Seth Lloyd

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Computers

If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear. – Ivo Andric

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Fear

The TUCs new slogan a future that works sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model. – Frances OGrady

Category:
Future

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. – Edmund Burke

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Tyranny