Famous Quotes / Don Marquis
52 Quotations by Don Marquis
- 21. I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel, and by nightfall, it's a paragraph in ...
- 22. I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.
- 23. I would rather start a family than finish one.
- 24. Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
- 25. If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age o ...
- 26. If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they ...
- 27. In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
- 28. It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be b ...
- 29. Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as e ...
- 30. Now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out ...
- 31. Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have ...
- 32. Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
- 33. Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for ...
- 34. Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
- 35. Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
- 36. Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
- 37. Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.
- 38. Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the ...
- 39. Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
- 40. Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.