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)