#w

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

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong. ↗

— Don Marquis

#does #ever #get #gets #idea

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

— Don Marquis

#canyon #down #dropping #echo #grand

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

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 #boast #descendants #family #finish

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. ↗

— Don Marquis

#lips #move #persons #read #reading

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it. ↗

— Don Marquis

#go #hell #know #ours #people