Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Topic: Age
Author: Don Marquis
Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
Topic: Blood
Author: Don Marquis
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
Topic: Crime
Author: Don Marquis
I would rather start a family than finish one.
Topic: Family
Author: Don Marquis
A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
Topic: Literature
Author: Don Marquis
So unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.
Topic: Luck
Author: Don Marquis
An optimist is a guy who has never had much experience.
Topic: Optimism
Author: Don Marquis
An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
Topic: Optimism
Author: Don Marquis
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
Topic: Personality
Author: Don Marquis
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
Topic: Pessimism
Author: Don Marquis
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Topic: Pity
Author: Don Marquis
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Author: Don Marquis
The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
Author: Don Marquis
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Topic: Punctuality
Author: Don Marquis
The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
Topic: Quality
Author: Don Marquis
The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
Topic: Quantity
Author: Don Marquis
When chickens quit quarrelling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race.
Topic: Quarrel
Author: Don Marquis
It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.
Topic: Result
Author: Don Marquis
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
Topic: Virtue
Author: Don Marquis
The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.
Topic: Want
Author: Don Marquis
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