Don Marquis Quotes

Don Marquis (48)

Birth:	28th July, 1878
Death:	16th June, 1937
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Humorist, Journalist

About

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.

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• It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

  Don Marquis

  Topics in English Proverbs

• Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humility

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humour

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry And Poets

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

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  Topics in Age

  Tags in Particularly, Interesting, Subject, Get, Enough, Anyone, Old, Live, Long

• Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

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  Topics in Art

  Tags in Up, Keeping, Yesterday, Procrastination

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

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  Topics in Age

  Tags in Two, Middle, Always, Week, Good, Ever, Time, Feel, Will, Thinking, Man

• If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you. If you really make them think, they’ll hate you.

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  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Ideas

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry

• I would rather start a family than finish one.

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  Topics in Family

  Tags in Would

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

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  Topics in Business

  Tags in Always, Cardinal, Insist, Punctuality, Subordinates, Virtues, Your

• Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

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

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• There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

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• The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

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• The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

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• Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

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• Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

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• Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.

  Don Marquis