Don Marquis
Don Marquis
Donald Robert Perry Marquiswas a humorist, journalist, and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is remembered best for creating the characters "Archy" and "Mehitabel", supposed authors of humorous verse. During his lifetime he was equally famous for creating another fictitious character, "the Old Soak," who was the subject of two books, a hit Broadway play, a silent movieand a talkie...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth28 July 1878
CountryUnited States of America
The art of newspaper paragraphing is / to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
I say that I am myself, but what is this Self of mine But a knot in the tangled skein of things where chance and change combine? Donald R
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat
An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.
A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.
Yes, he's got all them different kinds of thoroughbred blood in him, and he's got other kinds you ain't mentioned and that you ain't slick enough to see.
This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!
Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.
It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.