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
For him who fain would teach the world The world holds hate in fee- For Socrates, the hemlock cup; For Christ, Gethsemane.
Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.
I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.
That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.
I do not see why men sheould be so proud insects have the more ancient lineage according to the scientists insects were insects when man was only a burbling whatisit.
Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high; give up the dream.
Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the farm
A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.
Insects have their own point of view about civilization 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.
Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.
Life's too damn funny for me to explain.
In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.
The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.