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
An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
If the world were not so full of people, and most of them did not have to work so hard, there would be more time for them to get out and lie on the grass, and there would be more grass for them to lie on.
Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the farm
A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.
If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.
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.