Quote #66
The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
More from Don Marquis
- Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
- The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
- Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
- There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
- Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.
- There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
- Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
- We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.