Don Marquis Quotes
Most popular Don Marquis Quotes
Beauty gets the best of it in this world.
There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe it.
procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
The saddest ones are those that wear the jester's motley garb.
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
Bores bore each other, too, but it never seems to teach them anything.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Many a parent spanks his children for things his own parents should of spanked out of him.
The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
The successful people are the ones who can think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you. If you really make them think they'll hate you.
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel just as good as ever.
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.
A fierce unrest seethes at the core Of all existing things: It was the eager wish to soar That gave the gods their wings.
now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started to happen to somebody else.
How often when they find a sage as sweet as Socrates or Plato they hand him hemlock for his wage, or bake him like a sweet potato!
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
