Don Marquis Quotes
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.
In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
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.
One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
