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Don Marquis [1878-1937] American

Rank: 101
Poet, Humorist

Donald Robert Perry Marquis 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.

Funny, Age, Poetry, Business, Art, Best, Experience, Family, Happiness, Money, Work

Quote	Tags	Rank
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.	Art, Funny	101
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.	Funny	102
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.		103
Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.	Funny	104
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.	Business	105
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'	Work	106
A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?		107
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.		108
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.	Funny	109
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.	Age, Best	110
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.	Business	111
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.		112
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.		113
By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.		114
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.	Poetry	115
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.		116
I would rather start a family than finish one.	Family	117
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.	Happiness	118
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.	Poetry	119
Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.		120
Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.		121
In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.		122
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.	Age	123
Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.		124
Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.		125
A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.		126
Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.		201
Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.		202
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.		203
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.	Experience	204
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.		205
One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.		206
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.		207
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.		208
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.		209
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.	Poetry	210
There is nothing so habit-forming as money.	Money	211
A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.		212
The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.		213
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.		214
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.	Age	215
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.		216
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.		217
The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.		218

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