Quote #67

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

More from Don Marquis

  1. The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
  2. There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
  3. Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
  4. There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
  5. Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
  6. We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
  7. Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.
  8. When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

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