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  • I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

    Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.136, Penguin
  • The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat.

    Don Marquis (1950). “The lives and times of Archy and Mehitabel”, Doubleday Books
  • A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.

    Death   Laughter   Grief  
    Don Marquis, William McCollum (1982). “Selected letters of Don Marquis”, Northwoods Pr
  • It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.

    Don Marquis (2013). “The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel”, p.395, Doubleday
  • Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be. We shall have a long white beard and long white hair; we shall not walk at all, but recline in a wheel chair and bellow for alcoholic beverages; in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand, and write ribald songs against organized society... We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonoured, and disorderly old age.

    Song   Writing   Winter  
    "Modern Essays" edited by Christopher Morley, ("The Almost Perfect State"), 1921.
  • i have had my ups and downs but wotthehell wotthehell yesterday sceptres and crowns fried oysters and velvet gowns and today i herd with bums but wotthehell wotthehell i wake the world from sleep as i caper and sing and leap when i sing my wild free tune wotthehell wotthehell under the blear eyed moon i am pelted with cast off shoon but wotthehell wotthehell

    Sleep   Moon   Oysters  
    Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.272, Penguin
  • In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

  • In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.

    Church   Devil   Males  
  • it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty

    Forever   Instant   Cease  
    Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.253, Penguin
  • For him who fain would teach the world The world holds hate in fee- For Socrates, the hemlock cup; For Christ, Gethsemane.

    Hate   Fate   World  
  • what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and greenery of the eartheach generation wastes a little moreof the future with greed and lust for riches

    Men   Greed   Lust  
    Don Marquis (2013). “The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel”, p.603, Doubleday
  • Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.

  • 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

    Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.256, Penguin
  • Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat

    Cat   Zest   Sea  
    1927 archy and mehitabel,'mehitabels extensive past'.
  • Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella

    Looks   Slippers   Manage  
  • Life's too damn funny for me to explain.

    Life   Damn  
  • There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.

    'archy does his part' (1935) 'comforting thoughts'
  • Life is one damned kitten after another." Mehitabel the Alley Cat

    Cat   Life Is   Kitten  
  • You want to know whether I believe in ghosts? Of course I do not believe in them. If you had known as many of them as I have, you would not believe in them either.

    Believe   Want   Ghost  
    Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.254, Penguin
  • Yes, he's got all them different kinds of thoroughbred blood in him, and he's got other kinds you ain't mentioned and that you ain't slick enough to see.

    Funny   Dog   Blood  
    Don Marquis (1922). “The Revolt of the Oyster”
  • I would rather start a family than finish one.

    Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.136, Penguin
  • Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

  • the high cost of living isnt so bad if you dont have to pay for it

    Don Marquis (2013). “The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel”, p.58, Doubleday
  • Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

  • As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his needs. And he clothes them with thunders and beauty, He clothes them with music and fire, Seeing not, as he bows by their altars, That he worships his own desire.

    Men   Skulls   Clothes  
  • An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

  • A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.

    Funny   Humor   Admission  
  • What man calls civilization always results in deserts.

    Don Marquis (1935). “Archy does his part”
  • If the world were not so full of people, and most of them did not have to work so hard, there would be more time for them to get out and lie on the grass, and there would be more grass for them to lie on.

    Lying   People   Would Be  
  • Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue

    Men   Literature   Virtue  
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