Don Marquis Quotes

• A hypocrite is a person who – but who isn’t?

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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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• Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

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

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• I would rather start a family than finish one.

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• 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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• If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you. If you really make them think, they’ll hate you.

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

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

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• 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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• Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

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• Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

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• Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

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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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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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