Don Marquis

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

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.

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.

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.

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.