Don Marquis Quotes - Famous Quotes by Don Marquis
Born: 1878-07-29
Died: 1937-12-29
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A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't
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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
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Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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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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Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
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If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind.
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If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
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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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Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue.
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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
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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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Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
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Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
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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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Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
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Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
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The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
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The successful people are the ones that can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
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