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24 Mind-Blowing Quotes By Don Marquis

Famous As: Humorist
Born On: July 29, 1878
Died On: December 29, 1937
Born In: Walnut, Illinois
Died At Age: 59
Don Marquis was a celebrated American author, novelist, journalist, humorist, poet, playwright and newspaper columnist. He is best-known for creating ‘Archy and Mehitabel’. Besides this he is also remembered for creating yet another fictions character ‘The Old Soak’. This character became so popular that is was adapted in a Broadway play. Some of his famous works, writings, thoughts, books, letters, essays, plays, short stories and novels include, ‘Danny’s Own Story’, ‘Pandora Lifts The Lid’, ‘Prefaces’, ‘The Dark Hours’, ‘A Variety Of People’, ‘Out Of The Sea’, ‘Masters Of The Revels’ and ‘Selected Letters of Don Marquis’ amongst many others. Here is a corpus of some famous and popular thoughts, views and opinions that the multi-faceted writer has shared through his vast sea of work. Zoom through the famous quotes and sayings by Don Marquis on belief, human, race, progress, influence, child, parents, people, knowing, age, optimistic, experience, successful, integrity, honesty, blame, art, ancestors, mistakes and more.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday

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

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

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

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

Don Marquis
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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don Marquis
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

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

Don Marquis
Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don Marquis
Life is one damned kitten after another.

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

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

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

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

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

Don Marquis
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don Marquis
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

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

Don Marquis
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.

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.

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

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

Don Marquis