Don Marquis

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

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

Idea nie jest odpowiedzialna za ludzi, którzy w nią wierzą.

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

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.

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.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

The successful people are the ones that can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him *whose*?

Every cloud has a silver lining, but it is sometimes difficult to get it to the mint.

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

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

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.