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Type: Poet Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes Date of Birth: July 29, 1878 Date of Death: December 29, 1937 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Don Marquis Related Authors: Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Walt Whitman Bryant H. McGill Carl Sandburg James Russell Lowell T. S. Eliot |
A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.
Don Marquis A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't? Don Marquis A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. Don Marquis A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself. Don Marquis Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. Don Marquis An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it. Don Marquis An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it. Don Marquis An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience. Don Marquis Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. Don Marquis Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything. Don Marquis 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 Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong. Don Marquis Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint. Don Marquis 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 Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. Don Marquis Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. Don Marquis Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. Don Marquis 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 I would rather start a family than finish one. Don Marquis Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. Don Marquis 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 In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going. Don Marquis In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent. Don Marquis It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld. Don Marquis Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue. Don Marquis 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 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 One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream. Don Marquis Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it. Don Marquis Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Don Marquis Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. Don Marquis Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. Don Marquis Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into. Don Marquis Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. Don Marquis Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. Don Marquis Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity. Don Marquis Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at. Don Marquis The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram. Don Marquis The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. Don Marquis 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 There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us. Don Marquis There is nothing so habit-forming as money. Don Marquis 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 When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?' Don Marquis Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. Don Marquis |
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