Don Marquis

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

— Don Marquis

I would rather start a family than finish one.

— Don Marquis

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

— Don Marquis

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

— Don Marquis

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

— Don Marquis

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

— Don Marquis

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

— Don Marquis

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

— Don Marquis

I have noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them i wonder if it might not be the same with the human race

— Don Marquis

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

— Don Marquis

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

— Don Marquis

Infancy is not what it is cracked up to be. The child seems happy all the time to the adult, because the adult knows that the child is untouched by the real problems of life; if the adult were similarly untouched he is sure that he would be happy. But children, not knowing that they are having an easy time, have a good many hard times. Growing and learning and obeying the rules of their elders, or fighting against them, are not easy things to do.

— Don Marquis

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

— Don Marquis

Personally we look forward to an old age of dissipation and indolence and unreverend disrepute. In fifty years we shall be ninety-two years old. We intend to work rather hard during those fifty years and accumulate enough to live on without working any more for the next ten years, for we have determined to die at the age of one hundred and two.

— Don Marquis

We shall know that the Almost Perfect State is here when the kind of old age each person wants is possible to him. Of course, all of you may not want the kind we want . . . some of you may prefer prunes and morality to the bitter end.

— Don Marquis

Men could not think of THE ALMOST PERFECT STATE if they did not have it in them ultimately to create THE ALMOST PERFECT STATE.

— Don Marquis

The individual aspiration is always defeated of its perfect fruition and expression, but it is never lost; it passes into the conglomerate being of the race. The way to encourage yourself about the human race is to look at it first from a distance; look at the lights on the high spots.

— Don Marquis

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

— Don Marquis

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

— Don Marquis

dedicated to babsand babs knows why

— Don Marquis

the octopus's secret wishand be a broadway music show

— Don Marquis

oh i should worry and frettoujours gai toujours gai

— Don Marquis

procrastination is theup with yesterday

— Don Marquis

an optimist is a guymuch experience

— Don Marquis

dance mehitabel dancewill fizz like wine in a keg

— Don Marquis

iit tells too much

— Don Marquis

as i was crawling

— Don Marquis

no insect likes human beings you seem less human to me than most of them

— Don Marquis

it wont be long now it wont be long his own feet making deserts deserts deserts

— Don Marquis

what man calls civilization always results in deserts

— Don Marquis

men talk of money and industry because men cannot learn

— Don Marquis

each generation wastes a little moreof the future with greed and lust for riches

— Don Marquis

it wont be long now it won't be long and sapless as a mumbled bone

— Don Marquis

dear boss i relay this information will take warning and reform

— Don Marquis

it is a cheering thought to thinkthat god is on the side of the best digestion

— Don Marquis

there is bound to be a certain amount ofthat most of the trouble happens to other people

— Don Marquis

there is alwaysit is not our trouble

— Don Marquis

a robin said to ana phrase

— Don Marquis

demons and fishhookscondition of belief

— Don Marquis

Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

— Don Marquis

breakfast breakfastall s well with the world

— Don Marquis

how beautiful is the universeof waiting atom

— Don Marquis

well well boss there isto be eaten

— Don Marquis

there are more thingsin thy philosophy horatio

— Don Marquis

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

— Don Marquis

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

— Don Marquis

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

— Don Marquis

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

— Don Marquis

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

— Don Marquis

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

— Don Marquis

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

— Don Marquis