Don Marquis Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

27 Famous Quotes by Don Marquis
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“The nobler the blood the less the pride”
Ancestry Quotes
“Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.”
Fishing Quotes
“Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.”
Procrastination Quotes
“Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.”
Punctuality Quotes
“An optimist is a guy who has never had much experience.”
Optimism Quotes
“A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.”
Pessimism Quotes
“Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.”
Virtue Quotes
“The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.”
Quality Quotes
“The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.”
Quantity Quotes
“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”
Yesterday Quotes
“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?”
Wealth Quotes
“Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.”
Age Quotes
“Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.”
Blood Quotes
“It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.”
Crime Quotes
“I would rather start a family than finish one.”
Family Quotes
“A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.”
Literature Quotes
“So unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.”
Luck Quotes
“An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.”
Optimism Quotes
“Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.”
Personality Quotes
“Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.”
Pity Quotes
“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”
Procrastination Quotes
“The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.”
Public speaking Quotes
“Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.”
Punctuality Quotes
“Many a man spanks his children for the things his own father should have spanked out of him.”
Punishment Quotes
“When chickens quit quarrelling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race.”
Quarrel Quotes