Words matter. These are the best Don Marquis Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.
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.
Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.
By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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.
An idea isn’t responsible for the people who believe in it.
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
A hypocrite is a person who – but who isn’t?
Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don’t change diapers in midstream.
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child’s parent or grandparent.
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.
Ours is a world where people don’t know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
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.
