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Category: Don Marquis

3 December 2020 Don Marquis

I would rather start a family than finish one.

3 December 2020 Don Marquis

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

3 December 2020 Don Marquis

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

3 December 2020 Don Marquis

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

3 December 2020 Don Marquis

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.

3 December 2020 Don Marquis

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

3 December 2020 Don Marquis

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

3 December 2020 Don Marquis

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

3 December 2020 Don Marquis

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

3 December 2020 Don Marquis

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

3 December 2020 Don Marquis

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

3 December 2020 Don Marquis

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

3 December 2020 Don Marquis

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

3 December 2020 Don Marquis

One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don’t change diapers in midstream.

3 December 2020 Don Marquis

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

3 December 2020 Don Marquis

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?’

3 December 2020 Don Marquis

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

3 December 2020 Don Marquis

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.

3 December 2020 Don Marquis

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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