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Author: Don Marquis

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

A man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Characteristics Food/Drink Hubris Insects

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

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Money People Wealth Work

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

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Mistakes Money Ancestors

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

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Books Communication Poetry

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Characteristics Honesty People

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

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Characteristics Optimism Pessimism

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

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Characteristics Honesty Profitable

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

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

People Experience Optimist

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

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Books Communication Reading/Writing Echo Grand Canyon Rose petal Verse

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

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Activities Beliefs Characteristics Clothing Lies Sports Delusion Fishing

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

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

People Bores

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

America Places Work City

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

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Characteristics People Hypocrite

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Arms Ideas Intelligence Instinct Trigger

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

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Communication Reading/Writing

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

People Success World

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Age Health Middle age

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Characteristics People World Meek Pity

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

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Government Ideas Intelligence Politicians Wrong

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