Don Marquis
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
-Don Marquis
age
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
age
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
-Don Marquis
age
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
-Don Marquis
art
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
-Don Marquis
business
One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
-Don Marquis
change
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
-Don Marquis
experience
I would rather start a family than finish one.
-Don Marquis
family
I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
-Don Marquis
family
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
-Don Marquis
funny
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
-Don Marquis
funny
Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
-Don Marquis
funny
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
-Don Marquis
happiness
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
happiness
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
money
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
-Don Marquis
poetry
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
-Don Marquis
poetry
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
-Don Marquis
poetry
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
-Don Marquis
work
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