Books And Quotes By Don Marquis

Quotes by Don Marquis

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday"

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"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?"

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"Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."

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"From 'the lesson of the moth':

and before i could argue him
out of his philosophy
he went and immolated himself
on a patent cigar lighter
i do not agree with him
myself i would rather have
half the happiness and twice
the longevity

but at the same time i wish
there was something i wanted
as badly as he wanted to fry himself"

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"A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists."

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Books by Don Marquis

Archy and Mehitabel
1,468 ratings
September 29th 1987 by Anchor
(first published 1927)

The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel
269 ratings
December 5th 1949 by Doubleday & Co.
(first published 1916)

Archyology : The Long Lost Tales of Archy and Mehitabel
110 ratings
February 15th 1996 by UPNE

Archy's Life of Mehitabel
103 ratings
July 8th 1991 by Faber and Faber Ltd
(first published January 1st 1938)

The Best of Archy and Mehitabel
61 ratings
October 25th 2011 by Everyman's Library
(first published September 30th 2011)

Archyology II (the Final Dig): The Long Lost Tales of Archy and Mehitabel
42 ratings
March 1st 1998 by University Press of New England

Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers
25 ratings
October 11th 2007 by BiblioLife
(first published October 2006)

The " Archy" And "Mehitabel" Omnibus
21 ratings
November 1st 1998 by Faber & Faber

The Old Soak and Hail and Farewell
19 ratings
January 11th 2005 by Kessinger Publishing
(first published 1921)

Modern Essays, edited by Christopher Morley.
18 ratings
April 21st 2013
(first published 1921)

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Don Marquis
Date of birth: July 29, 1878
Died: December 29, 1937
Born: in Walnut, Illinois, The United States.

Description: Donald Robert Perry "Don" Marquis was a newspaper columnist as well as a playwright, novelist, and poet, best known for his "Archy and Mehitabel" free verse and his "Old Soak" anti-Prohibition play.

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Life(31,642 Quotes)
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Death(9,795 Quotes)
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