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 high cost of living isnt so bad if you dont have to pay for it
The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.
You want to know whether I believe in ghosts? Of course I do not believe in them. If you had known as many of them as I have, you would not believe in them either.
A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.
It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
An old stomach reforms more whiskey drinkers than a new resolve.
If the world were not so full of people, and most of them did not have to work so hard, there would be more time for them to get out and lie on the grass, and there would be more grass for them to lie on.
There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
I love you as New Englanders love pie!
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue
it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty
Life is one damned kitten after another." Mehitabel the Alley Cat
fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while
What man calls civilization always results in deserts.