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
Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.
How often when they find a sage, As sweet as Socrates or Plato; They hand him hemlock for his wage, Or bake him like a sweet potato! Donald R
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
An old stomach reforms more whiskey drinkers than a new resolve.
the high cost of living isnt so bad if you dont have to pay for it
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.