When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
More Quotes from Don Marquis:
I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.Don Marquis
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
Don Marquis
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
Don Marquis
Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
Don Marquis
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
Don Marquis
Prohibition makes you want to cry in your beer, and denies you the beer to cry into.
Don Marquis
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