Don Marquis Quotes
If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age o...
Show MorePublishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the...
Show MoreA pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have ...
Show MoreHappiness comes fleetingly now and then to those who have learned to do without it and to them only...
Show MoreIf you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they...
Show MoreIf you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their ...
Show MoreMiddle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as e...
Show MoreI would rather start a family than finish one.
The successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
This is another day! Are its eyes blurred With maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousan...
Show MoreFate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how mis...
Show MoreAn optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the ech...
Show Morethey thought they were heroes when they were only cinders in the eye of humanity too many creatures ...
Show MorePunctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
Friends I beg you do not shirk your daily task of indolence.
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the...
Show MoreHappiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
It is better to be happy for the moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be...
Show MoreThis is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousan...
Show MoreA pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimist.
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?
Ideas pull the trigger but instinct loads the gun.
Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the ...
Show MoreProcrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
fire is beautifuland we know that if we gettoo close it will kill usbut what does that matterit is b...
Show Moremy master is the same as godwhen he thumps with his handpeople bring us hamburg steaksat any eating ...
Show MoreOurs is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
The goal of all civilization all religious thought and all that sort of thing is simply to have a ...
Show MoreIn order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels tha...
Show MoreAge is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long e...
Show MoreThere is nothing so habit-forming as money.
Happiness comes fleetingly now and then To those who have learned to do without it And to them only...
Show Moreit wont be long now it wont be longman is making deserts of the earthit wont be long nowbefore man w...
Show Morea spider and a flyi heard a spiderand a fly arguingwait said the flydo not eat mei serve a great pur...
Show Moreyou want to knowwhether i believe in ghostsof course i do not believe in themif you had knownas many...
Show MoreAn idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
From 'the lesson of the moth':and before i could argue himout of his philosophyhe went and immolated...
Show MoreWith regard to ghosts, while we have never believed in them, we have always been afraid of them.
Every honorable man is forced to yield to blackmail once or twice in his life, just for the sake of ...
Show Morejustice...is not inherent in the universe and what man has put there he uses when he uses it at all ...
Show Morei have had my ups and downsbut wotthehell wotthehellyesterday sceptres and crownsfried oysters and v...
Show MorePity the meek for they shall inherit the earth.
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
