Author: Don Marquis

Quotes

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.

- Don Marquis

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

- Don Marquis

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

- Don Marquis

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

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

- Don Marquis

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?'

- Don Marquis

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.

- Don Marquis

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

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

- Don Marquis

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

- Don Marquis

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

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

- Don Marquis

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