zitiert in "Arbeit muss menschenwürdig sein" bei jesus.ch http://www.jesus.ch/index.php/D/article/71-Ethik/34719-Arbeit_muss_menschenwuerdig_sein/, Absatz "Gier eingrenzen"
Original engl.: "When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'" - in: Collier's Weekly 1933, p. 22 , zitiert bei Edward Anthony: O Rare Don Marquis. A Biography. Doubleday 1962. p. 354
Don Marquis Berühmte Zitate
„Die Ideen ziehen den Abzug - aber es ist der Instinkt, der die Waffe lädt.“
Original engl.: "Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun." - The Almost Perfect State. Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, Page & company, 1927, p. 8
zitiert bei Julia Schramm: Klick mich. Bekenntnisse einer Internet-Exhibitionistin. Knaus 2012. Dank books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=_WBj7eXPU0AC&pg=PT52&dq=marquis
Original engl.: "If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - Zitiert in THE VOLTA REVIEW 1934 p.574 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=qWE4AQAAIAAJ&q=hate, Clifton Fadiman: The American Treasury 1455-1955 (New York 1955) p. 997 http://books.google.de/books?id=PEQ4AAAAIAAJ&q=really+make+them und Hugh Rawson, Margaret Miner: The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2006) p. 431 #5 http://books.google.de/books?id=whg05Z4Nwo0C&pg=PA431&dq=mehitabel aus archy and mehitabel (1927)
Don Marquis: Zitate auf Englisch
“an optimist is a guy
that has never had
much experience”
certain maxims of archy
archy and mehitabel (1927)
warty bliggens, the toad
archy's life of mehitabel, random thoughts by archy (1933)
the robin and the worm
“each generation wastes a little more
of the future with greed and lust for riches”
archy and mehitabel (1927), what the ants are saying
“dance mehitabel dance
caper and shake a leg
what little blood is left
will fizz like wine in a keg”
mehitabel dances with boreas
archy and mehitabel (1927)
archy and mehitabel (1927), what the ants are saying
“A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.”
As quoted in O Rare Don Marquis, a Biography, by Edward Anthony (1962), Ch. 11
a roach of the taverns
archy and mehitabel (1927)
the song of mehitabel
archy and mehitabel (1927)
“dear boss i relay this information
without any fear that humanity
will take warning and reform”
archy and mehitabel (1927), what the ants are saying
the robin and the worm
“it is a cheering thought to think
that god is on the side of the best digestion”
the big bad wolf
archy does his part (1935)
archy and mehitabel (1927), what the ants are saying
archy's newest deal
archy does his part (1935)
“what man calls civilization
always results in deserts”
archy and mehitabel (1927), what the ants are saying
the robin and the worm
The Almost Perfect State (1921)