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
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue
What man calls civilization always results in deserts.
As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his needs. And he clothes them with thunders and beauty, He clothes them with music and fire, Seeing not, as he bows by their altars, That he worships his own desire.
It wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have used it up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions can find a living on it.
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.
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.
By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.
what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and greenery of the eartheach generation wastes a little moreof the future with greed and lust for riches
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
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.