Don Marquis Quotes
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The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
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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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The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
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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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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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Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
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no insect likes human beings and if you think you can see why the only reason i tolerate you is because you seem less human to me than most of them
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well well boss there issomething to be saidfor the lyric and imperialattitudebelieve that everything is foryou until you discover that you are for itsing your faith in what youget to eat right up to theminute you are eatenfor you are going to be eaten
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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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there is bound to be a certain amount oftrouble running any countryif you are president the trouble happens to youbut if you are a tyrant you can arrange things sothat most of the trouble happens to other people
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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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Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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Men could not think of THE ALMOST PERFECT STATE if they did not have it in them ultimately to create THE ALMOST PERFECT STATE.
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it wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have used it up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions can find a living on it man has oppressed us for a million years but he goes on steadily cutting the ground from under his own feet making deserts deserts deserts
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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
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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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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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dear boss i relay this information without any fear that humanity will take warning and reform
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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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Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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Personally we look forward to an old age of dissipation and indolence and unreverend disrepute. In fifty years we shall be ninety-two years old. We intend to work rather hard during those fifty years and accumulate enough to live on without working any more for the next ten years, for we have determined to die at the age of one hundred and two.