Don Marquis

Puzzles

• Procrastination is the art of keeping up with ___.
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• When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: "___?"
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• ___ is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
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• If you make people ___ they're ___ing, they'll love you. But if you really make them ___, they'll hate you.
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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Don Marquis?

  • → I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
  • → Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
  • → The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
  • → To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to Don Marquis.

  • → My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
  • → This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
  • → The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
  • → Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to Don Marquis.

  • → The first time my husband asked me for an aspirin and a glass of water I knew exactly what to do. I phoned my mother for the recipe.
  • → The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that is the way to bet.
  • → By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.
  • → One of life's puzzling oddities is that every centenarian has either used alcohol most of his life or has let it strictly alone.
  
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• One of these may be attributed to Don Marquis. Which one?

  • → True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
  • → Time is a waste of money.
  • → His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
  • → Now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.
  
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