Don Marquis Quotes

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

Family, Start, Tell

I would rather start a family than finish one.
Don Marquis

Family, Start, Rather

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

Writing, Rich, Write

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.
Don Marquis

Women, Person, Keep

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
Don Marquis

Child, Parent, Order

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
Don Marquis

Takes, Underworld, Sorts

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
Don Marquis

Cannot, Virtue, Seduced

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

Age, Time, Good

One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
Don Marquis

Change, Care, Important

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
Don Marquis

Through, Hell, Willing

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Don Marquis

Earth, Shall, Pity

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
Don Marquis

Poetry, Blind, Milton

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
Don Marquis

Successful, Busy, Keep

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
Don Marquis

Art, Until, Newspaper

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Don Marquis

Human, Progress, Race

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

Less, Public, Trouble

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Don Marquis

Blame, Else, Ourselves

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

Money, Mistakes, Leave

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: July 29, 1878

Died: December 29, 1937

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