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~ Don Marquis Quotes ~
« on: April 28, 2014, 11:37:16 AM »
Don Marquis Quotes


An American humorist, journalist and author.
Donald Robert Perry Marquis was an American humorist, journalist and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, newspaper columnist and playwright. He is remembered best for creating the characters "Archy" and "Mehitabel", supposed authors of humorous verse.

Here are some famous quotes by Don Marquis.




Pity the meek for they shall inherit the earth.
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« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2014, 11:38:12 AM »
Ideas pull the trigger but instinct loads the gun
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« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2014, 11:39:21 AM »
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
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« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2014, 11:40:07 AM »
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
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« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2014, 11:40:42 AM »
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2014, 11:41:13 AM »
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2014, 11:41:49 AM »
Friends I beg you do not shirk your daily task of indolence.
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« Reply #7 on: April 28, 2014, 11:42:19 AM »
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work ask him: 'Whose?'
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« Reply #8 on: April 28, 2014, 11:42:51 AM »
The successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
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« Reply #9 on: April 28, 2014, 11:43:16 AM »
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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« Reply #10 on: April 29, 2014, 11:23:02 AM »
Happiness comes fleetingly now and then To those who have learned to do without it And to them only.
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« Reply #11 on: April 29, 2014, 11:23:35 AM »
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
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Re: ~ Don Marquis Quotes ~
« Reply #12 on: April 29, 2014, 11:24:14 AM »
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
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« Reply #13 on: April 29, 2014, 11:24:49 AM »
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
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« Reply #14 on: April 29, 2014, 11:25:41 AM »
It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
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