Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
"Donald Robert Perry Marquis" was a humorist, journalist, and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is remembered best for creating the characters Archy and Mehitabel/"Archy" and "Mehitabel", supposed authors of humorous verse. During his lifetime he was equally famous for creating another fictitious character, "the Old Soak," who was the subject of two books, a hit Broadway play (1922–23), a silent movie (1926) and a talkie (1937).
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous poets! More Don Marquis on Wikipedia.Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
A pessimist is a person who has to listen to too many optimists.
Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
A hypocrite is a person who-but who isn't?
If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
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