Famous Don Marquis Quotations

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"Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes."
by Don Marquis
"An optimist is a man who has never had much experience."
by Don Marquis
"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."
by Don Marquis
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you But if you really make them think, they'll hate you."
by Don Marquis
"A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't"
by Don Marquis
"A pessimist is a person who has to listen to too many optimists."
by Don Marquis
"Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness."
by Don Marquis
"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control."
by Don Marquis
"If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind."
by Don Marquis
"Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun."
by Don Marquis
"Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue."
by Don Marquis
"Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."
by Don Marquis
"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."
by Don Marquis
"So unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else."
by Don Marquis
"The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race."
by Don Marquis
"The successful people are the ones who can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at."
by Don Marquis
"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him 'Whose'"
by Don Marquis
"Blood will tell, but often it tells too much."
by Don Marquis
"Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything."
by Don Marquis
"Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat"
by Don Marquis
"I would rather start a family than finish one."
by Don Marquis
"We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with."
by Don Marquis
"a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat"
by Don Marquis
"I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column."
by Don Marquis
"There is nothing so habit-forming as money."
by Don Marquis
"A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists."
by Don Marquis
"Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong."
by 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."
by Don Marquis
"Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at."
by Don Marquis
"He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country."
by Don Marquis
"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?"
by Don Marquis


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