Don Marquis

Found 11 thoughts of Don Marquis

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

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

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?

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

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

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

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.

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