Quote #64

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

More from Don Marquis

  1. Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.
  2. Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
  3. Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
  4. The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
  5. Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
  6. The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
  7. prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into
  8. There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

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