Quotes by 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.

"Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature."

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.

There is nothing so habit forming as money.

It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.

There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.

I have noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food, they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race.

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

Now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents, which started to happen to somebody else.