Quotes 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.
Don Marquis
The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
Don Marquis
I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
Don Marquis
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
Don Marquis
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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
The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
Don Marquis
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Don Marquis
Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
Don Marquis
A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.
Don Marquis
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Don Marquis
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
Don Marquis