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 high cost of living isnt so bad if you dont have to pay for it
I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.
An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.
A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.
Yes, he's got all them different kinds of thoroughbred blood in him, and he's got other kinds you ain't mentioned and that you ain't slick enough to see.
This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!
Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.
It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.
I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.
The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.
You want to know whether I believe in ghosts? Of course I do not believe in them. If you had known as many of them as I have, you would not believe in them either.
A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.
It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.