Famous Don Marquis Quotes

  • An idea isn’t responsible for the people who believe in it. – Don Marquis

    An idea isn’t responsible for the people who believe in it.– Don Marquis

  • If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; But if you really make them think, they’ll hate you. – Don Marquis

    If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; But if you really make them think, they’ll hate you.– Don Marquis

  • An optimist is a man who has never had much experience. – Don Marquis

    An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.– Don Marquis

  • An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.– Don Marquis

  • Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. – Don Marquis

    Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.– Don Marquis

  • Every honorable man is forced to yield to blackmail once or twice in his life, just for the sake of keeping peace in the community. – Don Marquis

    Every honorable man is forced to yield to blackmail once or twice in his life, just for the sake of keeping peace in the community.– Don Marquis

  • When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose? – Don Marquis

    When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?– Don Marquis

  • With regard to ghosts, while we have never believed in them, we have always been afraid of them. – Don Marquis

    With regard to ghosts, while we have never believed in them, we have always been afraid of them.– Don Marquis