Marquis

Famous quotes containing the word marquis:

    To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
    Luc, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747)

    Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
    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)