Marquis

Famous quotes containing the word marquis:

    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)

    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)

    By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.
    —Don Marquis (1878–1937)