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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, Robert Frost, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, e. e. cummings

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

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

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, Little

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, Person, Listen, Pessimist, Who

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, Man, Worth, Bartender, Knowing

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

Business, Always, Cardinal, Virtues

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

Poetry, Waiting, Rose, Writing, Book

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

People, Make, Underworld, Takes

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

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

Fishing, Clothes, Old, Liars, Delusion

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

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

Work, Hard Work, Man, Rich, You, Hard

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

Live, Age, Interesting, Enough, You, Old

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, Ancestors, Fair, Pay

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