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

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Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

Biography

Author Profession: Poet

Nationality: American

Born: July 29, 1878

Died: December 29, 1937

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Related Authors

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Maya Angelou, Robert Frost, Sylvia Plath, Carl Sandburg, T. S. Eliot, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson

Topics

Gun, Ideas, Instinct, Loads, Pull, Trigger

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

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

Funny, Yesterday, Art

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

By The Time, Will, Before

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

Funny, Cloud, Mint

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

Think, Rest, People

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

Hypocrite, Person, Who

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

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

Funny, Optimists, Too

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

Waiting, Like, Dropping

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

Progress, Chief, Race

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

Parent, Be Careful, Careful

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

Earth, Nature, Inherit

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

Surrounded, Delusion, Liars

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

Business, Always, Virtues

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

Underworld, Takes, People

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

Newspaper, Art, Like

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