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 most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.
I say that I am myself, but what is this Self of mine But a knot in the tangled skein of things where chance and change combine? Donald R
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.
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.
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 high cost of living isnt so bad if you dont have to pay for it
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.
An old stomach reforms more whiskey drinkers than a new resolve.
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.