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
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.
If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.
Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat
A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.
There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.
My heart hath followed all my days Something I cannot name.