Don Marquis Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be. We shall have a long white beard and long white hair; we shall not walk at all, but recline in a wheel chair and bellow for alcoholic beverages; in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand, and write ribald songs against organized society... We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonoured, and disorderly old age.

  Don Marquis

  Song, Writing, Winter

  "Modern Essays" edited by Christopher Morley, ("The Almost Perfect State"), 1921.

• If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.

  Don Marquis

  Death, Children, Maturity

• Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

  Don Marquis

  Funny, Birthday, Time

• Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

  Don Marquis

  Funny, Birthday, Meaningful

  "Modern Essays" edited by Christopher Morley, ("The Almost Perfect State"), 1921.

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