Marquis

Famous quotes containing the word marquis:

“now and then
there is a person born
who is so unlucky
that he runs into accidents
which started out to happen
to somebody else”
—Don Marquis (1878–1937)

“Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.”
—Luc, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747)

“The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.”
—Don Marquis (1878–1937)