Don Marquis
25 quotations
Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint
I would rather start a family than finish one.
Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.
Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?
I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.