Creative Quotations from . . .
Don Marquis
(1878-1937) born on Jul 29
US "journalist, poet, dramatist, humorist". "He was a popular columnist of N.Y. "Sun" and "Tribune," and wrote "The Old Soak," 1921."
 
   
F
Human wandering through the zoo
what do your cousins think of you.

R
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
A
I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.
N
"We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with."
K
"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him 'whose?'"


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "archy at the zoo, in archy and mehitabel (1927)."
R: "In E. Anthony, O Rare Don Marquis, ch. 11, 1962."
A: "In E. Anthony, O Rare Don Marquis, ch. 6, 1962."
N: "In "Correct Quotes for DOS," WordStar International, 1991."
K: "quoted in Edward Anthony, 'O Rare Don Marquis'"



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