American - Poet | July 29, 1878 - December 29, 1937
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
Don Marquis
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Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
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Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.
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A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?
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Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.
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Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
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Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
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It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
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