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)