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Procrastination is the Art of Keeping Up with Yesterday
Don Marquis was a humorist, journalist, and author. He was known for creating fictional characters that were extremely popular in his time.
Humorist, Journalist, and Author | American
Born: 1878-07-29 in Walnut, Illinois, USA
Died: December 29, 1937 in New York, USA
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Don Marquis
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Don Marquis
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
Don Marquis
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Don Marquis
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Don Marquis
One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
Don Marquis
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
Don Marquis
I would rather start a family than finish one.
Don Marquis
I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
Don Marquis
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
Don Marquis
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Don Marquis
Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
Don Marquis
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
Don Marquis
There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
Don Marquis
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
Don Marquis
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
Don Marquis
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
Don Marquis