A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.
Don Marquis
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
Don Marquis
An optimist is a guy that never has had much experience.
Don Marquis
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
Don Marquis
Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
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
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
I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.
Don Marquis
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
Don Marquis
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
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
One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don’t change diapers in midstream.
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
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Don Marquis
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Don Marquis
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis
Punctuality is one of the cardinal virtues. Always insist on it in your subordinates and dependents.
Don Marquis
The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.
Don Marquis
The successful people are the ones that think up things for the rest of the work to keep busy at.
Don Marquis
The successful people are the ones that think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
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
When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
Don Marquis