Don Marquis Quotations

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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.
	- Don Marquis	more quotations on [Writing]

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
	- Don Marquis	more quotations on [Poetry]

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe it.
	- Don Marquis	more quotations on [Ideas]

I drink only to make my friends seem interesting.
	- Don Marquis	more quotations on [Alcohol]

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
	- Don Marquis	more quotations on [Happiness]

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
	- Don Marquis	more quotations on [Honesty]

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
	- Don Marquis	more quotations on [Humankind] [Progress]

There is nothing so habit forming as money.
	- Don Marquis	more quotations on [Money]

I have often noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race.
	- Don Marquis	more quotations on [Brotherhood]

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	more quotations on [Age]

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
	- Don Marquis	more quotations on [Cinema]

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
	- Don Marquis	more quotations on [Boredom]

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
	- Don Marquis	more quotations on [Work]

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
	- Don Marquis	more quotations on [Procrastination]

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