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

— Don Marquis

#ask #got #hard #hard work #him

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

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

— Don Marquis

#guy #had #much #never #optimist

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

— Don Marquis

#disagree #gang #person #should #which

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

#bartender #before #by the time #drink #else

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint. ↗

— Don Marquis

#cloud #difficult #every #get #lining

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them. ↗

— Don Marquis

#hands #happiness #himself #how #into

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. ↗

— Don Marquis

#best #fun #his #how #learned

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

— Don Marquis

#cry #denies #into #makes #prohibition

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything. ↗

— Don Marquis

#bore #bores #each #never #other