Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Quote by Don Marquis

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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...

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.

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...

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...

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is...

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is...

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just...

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just...

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you. If you really make them...

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you. If you really make them...

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read...

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read...

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.

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

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

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...

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

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...

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

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

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...

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....