155 Quotes by Don Marquis

I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.

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

If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

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

How often when they find a sage, As sweet as Socrates or Plato; They hand him hemlock for his wage, Or bake him like a sweet potato! Donald R

I would rather start a family than finish one.

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.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into