1878-1937, American Humorist, Journalist
now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.
Don Marquis – [Misfortunes]
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
Don Marquis – [Success]
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
Don Marquis – [Cats]
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
Don Marquis – [Poetry and Poets]
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Don Marquis – [Procrastination]
prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into
Don Marquis – [Prohibition]
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Don Marquis – [Punctuality]
Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.
Don Marquis – [Science and Scientists]
Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
Don Marquis – [Honesty]
Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
Don Marquis – [Success]
There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
Don Marquis – [Money]
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
Don Marquis – [Inheritance]
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?
Don Marquis – [Work, Hard]
When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
Don Marquis – [Virtue]
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis – [Poetry and Poets]
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