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By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

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

Don Marquis

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.

Don Marquis

Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.

Don Marquis

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

Don Marquis

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

Don Marquis

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

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

Don Marquis

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

Don Marquis

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Don Marquis

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

Don Marquis

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

Don Marquis

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Don Marquis

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

Don Marquis

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

Don Marquis

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

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.

Don Marquis

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Don Marquis

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

Don Marquis

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

Don Marquis

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Don Marquis

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

Don Marquis

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

Don Marquis

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Don Marquis

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

Don Marquis

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

Don Marquis

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Don Marquis

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.

Don Marquis

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

Don Marquis

One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.

Don Marquis

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Don Marquis

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

Don Marquis

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Don Marquis

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

Don Marquis

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

Don Marquis

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

Don Marquis

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

Don Marquis