Don Marquis Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• 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

  Money, Mistake, Inheritance

• Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

  Don Marquis

  Love, Life, Relationship

• Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

  Don Marquis

  Bible, Jesus, Humble

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

  Don Marquis

  Country, Literature, Gang

  Quoted in E Anthony O Rare Don Marquis (1962), ch.11.

• 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

  Men, Order, Knowing

  Quoted in E Anthony O Rare Don Marquis (1962), ch.11.

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

  Don Marquis

  Important, Literature, Care

• 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

  Blood, Literature, Too Much

  Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.136, Penguin

• Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue

  Don Marquis

  Men, Literature, Virtue

• Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.

  Don Marquis

  Freedom, America, Literature

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

  Don Marquis

  Children, Order, Grandparent

• It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

  Don Marquis

  Funny, Pregnancy, Humor

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

  Don Marquis

  Art, Literature, Newspapers

  In E. Anthony O Rare Don Marquis (1962) p. 354

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