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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

Maya Angelou, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, e. e. cummings, T. S. Eliot, 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

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

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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

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

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

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

Funny, Cloud, Sometimes, Silver, Mint

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

Business, Virtues, Always, Your, Insist

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

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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, Finish, Too Much, Blood

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, Listen, Person, Pessimist, Who

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

Change, Care, Remember, Important, Most

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

Hypocrite, Person, Who

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

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

Funny, People, Believe, Responsible, Who

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

Beer, You, Cry, Want, Prohibition, Your

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