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)