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