Don Marquis Quotes

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

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• Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

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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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• Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

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• Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

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• An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

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• A sequel is an admission that you’ve been reduced to imitating yourself.

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

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• A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

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

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  Topics in Work

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

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  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Optimist

• 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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  Topics in Age

• So unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.

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  Topics in Luck

• The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

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  Topics in Humanity, Progress

• There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person’s eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These are the moments worth living.

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  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Sharing

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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