Quotes by Don Marquis

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

#Don Marquis

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

#Don Marquis

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

#Don Marquis

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

#Don Marquis

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

#Don Marquis

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

#Don Marquis

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

#Ancestry

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

#Elderly

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

#Clothes, #Delusion, #Fishing

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

#Honesty

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

#Obstacles

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

#Experience, #Optimism