Don Marquis Quotes

• 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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• It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

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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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• 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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  Tags in Humour

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

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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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• 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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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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