Source: Selected letters of Don Marquis
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Famous Don Marquis Quotes
Source: The lives and times of Archy and Mehitabel
“Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.”
Source: The lives and times of Archy and Mehitabel
Source: The lives and times of Archy and Mehitabel
Source: Archy and Mehitabel
“Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.”
Source: The lives and times of Archy and Mehitabel
“An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.”
“A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.”
“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'”
Source: Selected letters of Don Marquis
“Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.”
“The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.”
“Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.”
Source: Archy and Mehitabel
“A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.”
“Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.”
“An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.”
“I would rather start a family than finish one.”
Source: The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel
“A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.”
“In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.”
“The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.”
Source: The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel
Source: The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel
Source: The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel
“The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat.”
Source: The lives and times of Archy and Mehitabel
Source: Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers
Source: The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel
“Life is one damned kitten after another." Mehitabel the Alley Cat”
Source: The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel