Don Marquis quotes

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

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

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

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

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

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

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

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

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

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

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

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

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

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

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.