Alex Baker

“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?”
― Don Marquis

“Fishing: a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.”
― Don Marquis

“When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd,
Desiring this man's art and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings. a”
― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets

“A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.”
― Don Marquis