Famous Quotes

Quotes by Don Marquis

• A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
• Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
• An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
• Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
• 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.
• Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
• 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.
• I would rather start a family than finish one.
• Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
• 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.
• One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
• Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
• Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
• Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
• Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
• There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
• We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
• When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
• Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.