Quotes By Don Marquis
One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
Don Marquis
In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.
Don Marquis
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
Don Marquis
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis
Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
Don Marquis
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Don Marquis
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
Don Marquis
Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
Don Marquis
By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.
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