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