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

One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.

One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.

- 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

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

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

Writing a book of poetry 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.

- Don Marquis

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

- 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

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

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

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