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Don Marquis
American
Poet
About the author
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,
American
Poet
#Fun
#Age
#Middle age
Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#Want
#Beer
#Prohibition
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#Art
#Yesterday
#Procrastination
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#Poetry
#Blind
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#Earth
#Pity
One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#Change
#Care
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#Man
#Virtue
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#Publishing
#Waiting
#Echo
There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#Nothing
#Habit
#Money
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,
American
Poet
#Time
#Will
#Thinking
#Man
#Age
#Middle age
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#Want
#People
#World
#Hell
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#Business
#Punctuality
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#Integrity
Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#People
#Successful
#World
#Rest
The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#Art
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#Race
#Progress
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#Right
#Luxury
#Self
#Blame
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#Mistakes
#Money
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#Work
#Man
#Hard work
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#Writing
#Poetry
#Waiting
#Echo
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#Old
#Age
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#People
The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#Public
#Trouble
#Quality
#Quantity
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#Experience
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#People
#Idea
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#Influence
#Order
A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#Country
Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#Will
#Blood
Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#Time
#Will
#Man
#Worth
Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#Idea
#Wrong
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#Ideas
#Instinct
In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#Women
#Church
#Devil
#Theology
An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#People
#Idea
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.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#Want
#Writing
#Reading
Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
I would rather start a family than finish one.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#Family
I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#Will
#Family
#Blood
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#Control
#Honesty
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#Happiness
#Unhappiness
Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#Old
#Clothes
#Delusion
#Fishing
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
Don Marquis,
American
Poet
#Man
#Fate
#Happiness
#Prosperity