Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

- Don Marquis

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

- Don Marquis

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

- Don Marquis

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

- 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

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

- 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

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

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

- Don Marquis

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

- 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

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

- Don Marquis

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

- Don Marquis

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

- Don Marquis

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

- 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

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

- Don Marquis

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

- Don Marquis

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

- Don Marquis

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

- Don Marquis