Facts about Don Marquis
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Don Marquis was a famous Poet from USA, who lived between July 29, 1878 and December 29, 1937.
Zodiac etc.
He/she is born under the zodiac leo, who is known for Ruling, Warmth, Generosity, Faithful, Initiative.
Our collection contains 41 quotes who is written / told by Don, under the main topics: Age, Experience, Happiness, Work.
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Famous quotes by Don Marquis (41)
"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"
"An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience"
"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'"
"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"
"A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists"
"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'"
"In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent"
"Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes"
"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"
"In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going"
"Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint"
"An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it"
"A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself"
"We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with"
"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"
"Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue"
"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control"
"Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong"
"A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?"
"Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness"
"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough"
"Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at"
"It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld"
"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"
"Blood will tell, but often it tells too much"
"The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality"
"The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram"
"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo"
"I would rather start a family than finish one"
"An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it"
"A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country"
"Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever"
"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday"
"Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it"
"One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream"
"Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun"
"By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing"
"There is nothing so habit-forming as money"
"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us"
"Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth"
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