Top 44 Quotes by 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.

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

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

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

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

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

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