155 Quotes by Don Marquis

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

Our is a world where people don’t know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it’s a paragraph in my column.

The things that I can’t have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can’t, And what I have to do I hate.

A sequel is an admission that you’ve been reduced to imitating yourself.

I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow’s foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.

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

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

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.