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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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Don Marquis
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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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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

We starve the rats, creosote the ticks, swat the flies, step on the cockroaches and poison the scales. Yet when these pests appear in human form we go paralytic. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Insects

Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long glinting dragon-flies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies. – Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company

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Insects

The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey. – Andy Warhol

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Insects

Random Quotes

Practice without improvement is meaningless. – Chuck Knox

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Practice

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient. – Gertrude Stein

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Patience

I think that generally music should be a positive thing, I like Bob Marleys attitude: he said that his goal in life was to single handedly fight all the evil in the world with nothing but music, and when he went to a place he didnt go to play, he went to conquer. – Jon Fishman

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Attitude

I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles. – Don Van Vliet

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car