“I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.”
Don Marquis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Writing
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“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?”
Don Marquis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Work
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“When you can’t have anything else, you can have virtue.”
Don Marquis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Virtue
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“Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.”
Don Marquis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Boredom
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“Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.”
Don Marquis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.”
Don Marquis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Success
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“Ours is a world where people don’t know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.”
Don Marquis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Success
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“Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.”
Don Marquis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Science
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“Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.”
Don Marquis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Punctuality
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“prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into”
Don Marquis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”
Don Marquis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Procrastination
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“Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.”
Don Marquis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Political
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“Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.”
Don Marquis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Poetry
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“A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.”
Don Marquis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Pessimism
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“In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child’s parent or grandparent.”
Don Marquis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Parenting
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“An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.”
Don Marquis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Optimism
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“There is nothing so habit-forming as money.”
Don Marquis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Money
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“An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.”
Don Marquis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Ideas
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“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
Don Marquis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Ideas
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“Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.”
Don Marquis
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Honesty
