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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

Don Marquis

People

Idea

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

Don Marquis

Experience

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

Don Marquis

People

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

Don Marquis

Age

Old

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

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

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

Mistakes

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

Don Marquis

Progress

Race

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

Don Marquis

Art

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Don Marquis

Integrity

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

Don Marquis

Business

Punctuality

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