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date: 15 March 2025

Don Marquis 1878–1937
American poet and journalist 

  1. procrastination is the
    art of keeping
    up with yesterday.
     
    archy and mehitabel (1927) ‘certain maxims of archy’
  2. but wotthehell archy wotthehell
    jamais triste archy jamais triste
    that is my motto.
     
    archy and mehitabel (1927)
  3. If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
    archy and mehitabel (1927)
  4. boss there is always
    a comforting thought
    in time of trouble when
    it is not our trouble.
     
    archy does his part (1935)
  5. honesty is a good
    thing but
    it is not profitable to
    its possessor
    unless it is
    kept under control.
     
    archys life of mehitabel (1933)
  6. did you ever
    notice that when
    a politician
    does get an idea
    he usually
    gets it all wrong.
     
    archys life of mehitabel (1933)
  7. now and then
    there is a person born
    who is so unlucky
    that he runs into accidents
    which started to happen
    to somebody else.
     
    archys life of mehitabel (1933)
  8. Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.
    Sun Dial Time (1936)
  9. Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
    E. Anthony O Rare Don Marquis (1962)
  10. When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?’
    E. Anthony O Rare Don Marquis (1962)