Don Marquis quotes
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“An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.”
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“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”
-- Don MarquisSource : archy and mehitabel (1927) "certain maxims of archy"
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“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'”
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“The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.”
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“Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.”
-- Don MarquisSource : Don Marquis (2012). “Archy and Mehitabel”, p.54, Anchor
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“Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.”
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“A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.”
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“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.”
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“personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble”
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“Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.”
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“Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.”
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“Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.”
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“Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”
-- Don MarquisSource : Don Marquis, William McCollum (1982). “Selected letters of Don Marquis”, Northwoods Pr
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“A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.”
-- Don MarquisSource : Quoted in E Anthony O Rare Don Marquis (1962), ch.11.
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“The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.”
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“We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.”
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“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.”
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“i have had my ups and downs but wotthehell wotthehell yesterday sceptres and crowns fried oysters and velvet gowns and today i herd with bums but wotthehell wotthehell i wake the world from sleep as i caper and sing and leap when i sing my wild free tune wotthehell wotthehell under the blear eyed moon i am pelted with cast off shoon but wotthehell wotthehell”
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“A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.”
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“Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, "Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?”
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“it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty”
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“Life is one damned kitten after another." Mehitabel the Alley Cat”
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“The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.”
-- Don MarquisSource : In E. Anthony O Rare Don Marquis (1962) p. 354
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“It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.”
-- Don MarquisSource : "Story of a Feather", in "Punch", Volume V, p. 55, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 911-17, 1922.
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“In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.”
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“By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.”
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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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“I would rather start a family than finish one.”
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“fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while”
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“One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.”
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“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.”
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“Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.”
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“Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.”
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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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“The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat.”
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“From 'the lesson of the moth': and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter i do not agree with him myself i would rather have half the happiness and twice the longevity but at the same time i wish there was something i wanted as badly as he wanted to fry himself”
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