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

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

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
- Don Marquis Quote

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
- Don Marquis Quote

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
- Don Marquis Quote

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

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 Quote

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
- Don Marquis Quote

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
- Don Marquis Quote

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 Quote

I would rather start a family than finish one.
- Don Marquis Quote

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
- Don Marquis Quote

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

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
- Don Marquis Quote

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
- Don Marquis Quote

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

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

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
- Don Marquis Quote

Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.
- Don Marquis Quote

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

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

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

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
- Don Marquis Quote

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
- Don Marquis Quote

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 Quote

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