Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Douglas Malloch

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American poet Douglas Malloch.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Douglas Malloch was an American poet, short-story writer and Associate Editor of American Lumberman, a trade paper in Chicago. He was known as a "Lumberman's poet" both locally and nationally. He is noted for writing Round River Drive and "Be the Best of Whatever You Are" in addition to many other creations. He was commissioned to write new lyrics for the Michigan State Song, Michigan, My Michigan in 1902.

American - Poet | May 5, 1877 - July 2, 1938

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You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes Ah, that's the reason a bird can sing - On his darkest day he believes in spring.

Douglas Malloch

If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail, If you can't be the sun, be a star; It isn't by size that you win or you fail- Be the best of whatever you are.

Douglas Malloch

A liar freely gives his oath

Douglas Malloch

Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog; but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog.

Douglas Malloch

The tree that never had to fight for sun and sky and air and light but stood out in the open plain and always got it share of rain, never became a forest king but lived and died a scrubby thing. Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger wind, the stronger trees.

Douglas Malloch

Men look to the East for the dawning things, for the light of a raising sun But they look to the West, to the crimson West, for the things that are done, are done.

Douglas Malloch

The biggest liar in the world is They Say.

Douglas Malloch

You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes.

Douglas Malloch

Good timber does not grow with ease: The stronger wind, the stronger trees; The further sky, the greater length; The more the storm, the more the strength. By sun and cold, by rain and snow, In trees and men good timbers grow.

Douglas Malloch

Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.

Douglas Malloch

He who makes a garden Works hand in hand with God.

Douglas Malloch

Father of fathers, make me one, A fit example for a son.

Douglas Malloch