24 Mind-Blowing Quotes By Don Marquis

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Our is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

It is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty

Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, "Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?

The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

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

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

Life is one damned kitten after another." Mehitabel the Alley Cat

I never think at all when I write nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well

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

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

An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.

I look back on my life and it seems to me to be just one damned kitten after another

Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella

Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.

My youth i shall never forget but there s nothing i really regret wotthehell wotthehell there s a dance in the old dame yet toujours gai toujours gai

If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimist.