Don Marquis

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

— Don Marquis

#anyone #enough #get #interesting #live

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday ↗

— Don Marquis

#procrastination #art

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you. If you actually make them think, they'll hate you. ↗

— Don Marquis

#society #thinking #love

An optimist is a man who has never had much experience. ↗

— Don Marquis

#optimism #optimist #experience

If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind. ↗

— Don Marquis

#humorous #incorrigible #age

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

— Don Marquis

#ideas #instinct #loads #pull #trigger

A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't? ↗

— Don Marquis

#person #who

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience. ↗

— Don Marquis

#guy #had #much #never #optimist

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. ↗

— Don Marquis

#canyon #down #dropping #echo #grand

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. ↗

— Don Marquis

#delusion #entirely #fishing #liars #old