Don Marquis

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

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday…

I would rather start a family than finish one…

One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don’t change diapers…

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they…

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to…

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person…

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind…

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week…

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man’s hands just…

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists…

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon…

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors…

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get…

There is nothing so habit-forming as money…