Quotes By Don Marquis

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.