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
Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.
The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.
One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.
The art of newspaper paragraphing is / to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
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.
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.
A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.