Don Marquis Quotes
+1The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
- Don Marquis
+1Fate 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
+1Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
- Don Marquis
+1So unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.
- Don Marquis
+1An optimist is a guy who has never had much experience.
- Don Marquis
+1A man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.
- Don Marquis
+1The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
- Don Marquis
+1The high cost of living isnt so bad if you dont have to pay for it.
- Don Marquis
+1Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
- Don Marquis
+1The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.
- Don Marquis
+1Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
- Don Marquis
+1A sequel is an admission that you’ve been reduced to imitating yourself.
- Don Marquis
+1Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
- Don Marquis
+1Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
- Don Marquis