Don Marquis Quotes

• Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

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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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• 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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• There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

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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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• The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

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• Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

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• Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

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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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• Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

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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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• One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don’t change diapers in midstream.

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• Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.

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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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• 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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• Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

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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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• Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

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

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• 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.

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Don Marquis (55)

Birth:	29th July, 1878
Death:	29th December, 1937
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Humorist, Journalist

About

Donald Robert Perry Marquis was born in  Walnut, Illinois. He was a humorist, journalist, and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is remembered best for creating the characters "Archy" and "Mehitabel", supposed authors of humorous verse. He was the author of about 35 books. He co-wrote to the films The Sports Pages, Shinbone Alley, The Good Old Soak and Skippy. The 1926 film The Cruise of the Jasper B was supposedly based on his 1916 novel of the same name, although the plots have little in common.

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