Don Marquis quotes and words of wisdom

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

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

"Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness."
Found in the topic Happiness.

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."
Found in the topic Procrastination.

"Prohibition makes you want to cry in your beer, and denies you the beer to cry into."
Found in the topic Alcohol.

"He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country."
Found in the topic Circus.

"Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity."
Found in the topic Honest.

"An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience."
Found in the topic Optimism.

"There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it."
Found in the topic Idea.

"Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."
Found in the topic Humanitarian.

"The successful people are the ones who can think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at."
Found in the topic Success.

"Now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents, which started to happen to somebody else."
Found in the topic Luck.

"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."
Found in the topic Poetry.

"I have noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food, they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race."
Found in the topic Easy.

"There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble."
Found in the topic Comfort.

"There is nothing so habit forming as money."
Found in the topic Money.

"If you make people think they"re thinking, they"ll love you; but if you really make them think, they"ll hate you."
Found in the topic Thief.

Interesting Quotes

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?Bertolt Brecht - German Communist & dramatist (1898 - 1956)

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.Henry Louis Mencken