Don Marquis

there are more things twixt the vermiform appendix and nirvana than are dreamt of in thy philosophy horatio

well well boss there is something to be said for the lyric and imperial attitude believe that everything is for you until you discover

how beautiful is the universe when something digestible meets with an eager digestion how sweet the embrace when atom rushes to the arms of waiting atom

breakfast breakfast i am full of breakfast and they are at breakfast in heaven they breakfast in heaven all s well with the world

a robin said to an angleworm as he ate him i am sorry but a bird has to live somehow the worm being slow witted could not gather his

i asked him why is it that you are so greatly favored ask rather said warty bliggens what the universe

a little more conversation revealed that warty bliggens considers himself to be the center of the said universe

i met a toad the other day by the name of warty bliggens he was sitting under a toadstool feeling contented

dear boss i relay this information without any fear that humanity will take warning and reform

it wont be long now it won't be long till earth is barren as the moon and sapless as a mumbled bone

each generation wastes a little more of the future with greed and lust for riches

men talk of money and industry of hard times and recoveries of finance and economics but the ants wait and the scorpions wait for while men talk they are making deserts all the time getting the world ready for the conquering ant

what man calls civilization always results in deserts

it wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have used it up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions

no insect likes human beings and if you think you can see why the only reason i tolerate you is because you seem less human to me than most of them

i have often noticed that ancestors never boast the descendants who boast of ancestors i would rather start a family than

dance mehitabel dance caper and shake a leg what little blood is left will fizz like wine in a keg

an optimist is a guy that has never had much experience

procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday

oh i should worry and fret death and i will coquette there s a dance in the old dame yet toujours gai toujours gai

the octopus's secret wish is not to be a formal fish he dreams that some time he may grow another set of legs or so and be a broadway music show

dedicated to babs with babs knows what and babs knows why

The individual aspiration is always defeated of its perfect fruition and expression, but it is never lost; it passes into the conglomerate being of the race. The way to encourage yourself about the human race is to look at it first from a …

Humanity triumphs over its details.