It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

Quote by Don Marquis

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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...

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

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

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...

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....

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

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...

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

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....

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...

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

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

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.

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

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

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we...

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we...

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders,...

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders,...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were...

Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were...

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and...

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and...