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Danh ngôn của Don Marquis (Sứ mệnh: 5)

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
I would rather start a family than finish one.
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
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.
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.