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Author: Don Marquis

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

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

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

People Bores

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

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Activities Beliefs Characteristics Clothing Lies Sports Delusion Fishing

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

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Characteristics Honesty Profitable

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Emotions Happiness Time Unhappiness

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

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Government Ideas Intelligence Politicians Wrong

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

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Science/Weather Things Backscratcher

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

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Characteristics Children Family Grandparents Influence

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Money People Wealth Work

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

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Age Health Middle age

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

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Characteristics Time Punctuality Subordinates Virtue

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

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

People Success World

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Characteristics Optimism Pessimism

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Characteristics Past Time Procrastination

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Characteristics Honesty People

A man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Characteristics Food/Drink Hubris Insects

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

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Characteristics People Hypocrite

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

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Mistakes Money Ancestors

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

America Places Work City

Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Alcohol Beer Food/Drink Government Prohibition

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

Don Marquis

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Arms Ideas Intelligence Instinct Trigger

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