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

Quote by Don Marquis

Topics: Experience Quotes, Optimism Quotes

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has...

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has...

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

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

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors....

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors....

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world...

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world...

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets...

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets...

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to...

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to...

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon...

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

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

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

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week...

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week...

A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?

A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

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

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

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

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

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's...

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's...

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage...

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage...