MARQUIS

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

Procrastination--the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?