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 chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella
When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
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
If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?
prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.