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
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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.
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.