Quotes from Don Marquis

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.

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

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.

It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.

personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

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

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

What man calls civilization always results in deserts.

Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat

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

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

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

What I like about Christmas is that you can make people forget the past with the present.

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

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I have often 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.

I love you as New Englanders love pie!