Don Marquis Literature Quotations

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

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.

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

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

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