Don Marquis Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.”

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

“Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.”

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