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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Don Marquis

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

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

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

Don Marquis

Virtue

Man

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

Don Marquis

Change

Care

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Don Marquis

Earth

Pity

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

Don Marquis

Poetry

Blind

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

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