Don Marquis Quotes

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
Don Marquis

Funny, Person, Listen

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Don Marquis

Funny, Art, Yesterday

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Don Marquis

Age, Live, Long

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
Don Marquis

Work, Hard, Him

A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?
Don Marquis

Hypocrite, Person

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis

Poetry, Waiting, Down

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
Don Marquis

Gun, Ideas, Instinct

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis

Happiness, Between, Interval

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
Don Marquis

Liars, Old, Fishing

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.
Don Marquis

Person, Country, Gang

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
Don Marquis

Experience, Guy, Optimist

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
Don Marquis

Funny, Sometimes, Difficult

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

Time, Him, Before

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
Don Marquis

Integrity, Spite, Likeable

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis

Poetry, Waiting, Book

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
Don Marquis

Wrong, Idea, Politician

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
Don Marquis

Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.
Don Marquis

Makes, Beer, Cry

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

Happiness, Often, Himself

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

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Don Marquis

Business, Virtues, Insist

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
Don Marquis

Yourself, Imitating, Sequel

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
Don Marquis

Tell, Often, Blood

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
Don Marquis

Seems, Teach, Bore

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
Don Marquis

Good, Honesty, Control

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: July 29, 1878

Died: December 29, 1937

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