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Don Marquis Quotes
Best Quotes by Don Marquis (Top 10)
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Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
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Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?
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Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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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.
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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
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Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
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More Don Marquis Quotes
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A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.
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Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint
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An optimist is a guy who has never had much experience.
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Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
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Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
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Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
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The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
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We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
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Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
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