Don Marquis Quotes

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Beauty gets the best of it in this world. - Don Marquis quote.
Beauty gets the best of it in this world.
— Don Marquis
There is nothing so habit-forming as money. - Don Marquis quote.
There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
— Don Marquis

money

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

ideas

procrastination is the
art of keeping
up with yesterday. - Don Marquis quote.
procrastination is the
art of keeping
up with yesterday.
— Don Marquis archy and mehitabel

procrastination

An optimist is a guy
that has never had much
experience. - Don Marquis quote.
An optimist is a guy
that has never had much
experience.
— Don Marquis Archy and Mehitabel

optimism

Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. - Don Marquis quote.
Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
— Don Marquis

old age

The saddest ones are those that wear the jester's motley garb. - Don Marquis quote.
The saddest ones are those that wear the jester's motley garb.
— Don Marquis
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity. - Don Marquis quote.
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
— Don Marquis O Rare Don Marquis

integrity

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. - Don Marquis quote.
Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
— Don Marquis The American Treasury, 1455–1955

fishing

Bores bore each other, too, but it never seems to teach them anything. - Don Marquis quote.
Bores bore each other, too, but it never seems to teach them anything.
— Don Marquis

boring people

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. - Don Marquis quote.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
— Don Marquis The Almost Perfect State

obstacles

Many a parent spanks his children for things his own parents should of spanked out of him. - Don Marquis quote.
Many a parent spanks his children for things his own parents should of spanked out of him.
— Don Marquis
The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram. - Don Marquis quote.
The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
— Don Marquis O Rare Don Marquis: A Biography

newspapers

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

business

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

determination

The successful people are the ones who can think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at. - Don Marquis quote.
The successful people are the ones who can think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
— Don Marquis

success

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. - Don Marquis quote.
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
— Don Marquis O Rare Don Marquis: A Biography

poetry

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you. If you really make them think they'll hate you. - Don Marquis quote.
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you. If you really make them think they'll hate you.
— Don Marquis
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel just as good as ever. - Don Marquis quote.
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel just as good as ever.
— Don Marquis

age middle age

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while. - Don Marquis quote.
It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
— Don Marquis
A fierce unrest seethes at the core
Of all existing things:
It was the eager wish to soar
That gave the gods their wings. - Don Marquis quote.
A fierce unrest seethes at the core
Of all existing things:
It was the eager wish to soar
That gave the gods their wings.
— Don Marquis Modern American Poetry

aspiration

now and then
there is a person born
who is so unlucky
that he runs into accidents
which started to happen
to somebody else. - Don Marquis quote.
now and then
there is a person born
who is so unlucky
that he runs into accidents
which started to happen
to somebody else.
— Don Marquis archys life of mehitabel

luck

How often when they find a sage as sweet as Socrates or Plato they hand him hemlock for his wage, or bake him like a sweet potato! - Don Marquis quote.
How often when they find a sage as sweet as Socrates or Plato they hand him hemlock for his wage, or bake him like a sweet potato!
— Don Marquis
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 quote.
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 advice culture

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
— Don Marquis

experience pessimistic optimism

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
— Don Marquis O Rare Don Marquis: A Biography

boring people

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
— Don Marquis

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