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
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.
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
I say that I am myself, but what is this Self of mine But a knot in the tangled skein of things where chance and change combine? Donald R
The art of newspaper paragraphing is / to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
How often when they find a sage, As sweet as Socrates or Plato; They hand him hemlock for his wage, Or bake him like a sweet potato! Donald R