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
He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.
It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.
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.
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
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.
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.