Quotes By Don Marquis

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.