Don Marquis, fully Donald Robert Perry Marquis

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

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

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

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

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

Life is one damned kitten after another. Mehitabel the Alley Cat

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

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.

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

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

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

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

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

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

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?