Clock Quotes

I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

- Don Marquis

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tags: The Hen and the Oriole, Don Marquis,
Births 1793 - Henry Schoolcraft, American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist
February 2nd 1522 - Birth of Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician
It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while. - Don Marquis

Which nicely segues to a favorite quatrain of mine by him:

"prohibition is something that
makes you want to cry in your beer
and then denies you
the beer to cry into."

or, for the naturalist:

"the honey bee is mad and cross
and wicked as a weasel
and when she perches on you boss
she leaves a little measle"

--ml