Don Marquis Quotes

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

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

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.

Ours is a world where people don’t know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

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.

An idea isn’t responsible for the people who believe in it.

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

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child’s parent or grandparent.

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

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

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.

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

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

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