Don Marquis Quotes

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Don Marquis

Profession : Poet

Birth : July 29, 1878

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

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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

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I would rather start a family than finish one.

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

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Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

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

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

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

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

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

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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

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There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

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

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

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

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

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Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

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Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

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Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

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

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