# Don Marquis

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- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/don-marquis

## Books

- [Archy and Mehitabel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/don-marquis/archy-and-mehitabel.md) — 9 quotes

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> as i was crawling
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> through the holes in
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> a swiss cheese
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> the other
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> day it occurred to
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> me to wonder
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> what a swiss cheese
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> would think if
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> a swiss cheese
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> could think and after
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> cogitating for some
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> time i said to myself
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> if a swiss cheese
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> could think
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> it would think that
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> a swiss cheese
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> was the most important
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> thing in the world
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> just as everything that
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> can think at all
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> does think about itself

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/don-marquis/archy-and-mehitabel/as-i-was.md)

> well boss
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> mehitabel the cat
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> has reappeared in her old
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> haunts with a
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> flock of kittens
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> archy she said to me
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> yesterday
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> the life of a female
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> artist is continually
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> hampered what in hell
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> have i done to deserve
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> all these kittens
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> i look back on my life
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> and it seems to me to be
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> just one damned kitten
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> after another
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> i am a dancer archy
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> and my only prayer
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> is to be allowed
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> to give my best to my art
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> but just as i feel
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> that i am succeeding
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> in my life work
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> along comes another batch
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> of these damned kittens
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> it is not archy
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> that i am shy on mother love
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> god knows i care for
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> the sweet little things
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> curse them
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> but am i never to be allowed
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> to live my own life
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> i have purposely avoided
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> matrimony in the interests
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> of the higher life
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> but i might just
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> as well have been a domestic
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> slave for all the freedom
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> i have gained
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> i hope none of them
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> gets run over by
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> an automobile
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> my heart would bleed
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> if anything happened
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> to them and i found it out
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> but it isn t fair archy
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> it isn t fair
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> these damned tom cats have all
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> the fun and freedom
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> if i was like some of these
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> green eyed feline vamps i know
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> i would simply walk out on the
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> bunch of them and
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> let them shift for themselves
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> but i am not that kind
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> archy i am full of mother love
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> my kindness has always
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> been my curse
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> a tender heart is the cross i bear
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> self sacrifice always and forever
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> is my motto damn them
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> i will make a home
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> for the sweet innocent
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> little things
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> unless of course providence
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> in his wisdom should remove
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> them they are living
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> just now in an abandoned
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> garbage can just behind
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> a made over stable in greenwich
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> village and if it rained
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> into the can before i could
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> get back and rescue them
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> i am afraid the little
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> dears might drown
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> it makes me shudder just
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> to think of it
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> of course if i were a family cat
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> they would probably
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> be drowned anyhow
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> sometimes i think
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> the kinder thing would be
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> for me to carry the
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> sweet little things
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> over to the river
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> and drop them in myself
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> but a mother s love archy
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> is so unreasonable
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> something always prevents me
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> these terrible
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> conflicts are always
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> presenting themselves
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> to the artist
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> the eternal struggle
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> between art and life archy
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> is something fierce
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> yes something fierce
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> my what a dramatic
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> life i have lived
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> one moment up the next
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> moment down again
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> but always gay archy always gay
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> and always the lady too
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> in spite of hell
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> well boss it will
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> be interesting to note
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> just how mehitabel
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> works out her present problem
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> a dark mystery still broods
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> over the manner
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> in which the former
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> family of three kittens
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> disappeared
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> one day she was talking to me
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> of the kittens
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> and the next day when i asked
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> her about them
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> she said innocently
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> what kittens
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> interrogation point
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> and that was all
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> i could ever get out
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> of her on the subject
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> we had a heavy rain
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> right after she spoke to me
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> but probably that garbage can
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> leaks so the kittens
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> have not yet
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> been drowned

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/don-marquis/archy-and-mehitabel/well-boss-mehitabel.md)

> i
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> have often noticed that
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> ancestors never boast
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> the descendants who boast
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> of ancestors i would
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> rather start a family than
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> one blood will tell but often
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> it tells too much

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/don-marquis/archy-and-mehitabel/i-have-often.md)

> dance mehitabel dance
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> caper and shake a leg
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> what little blood is left
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> will fizz like wine in a keg

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/don-marquis/archy-and-mehitabel/dance-mehitabel-dance.md)

> the octopus's secret wish
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> is not to be a formal fish
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> he dreams that some time he may grow
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> another set of legs or so
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> and be a broadway music show

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/don-marquis/archy-and-mehitabel/the-octopuss-secret.md)

> dedicated to babs
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> with babs knows what
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> and babs knows why

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/don-marquis/archy-and-mehitabel/dedicated-to-babs.md)

> procrastination is the
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> art of keeping
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> up with yesterday

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/don-marquis/archy-and-mehitabel/procrastination-is-the.md)

> an optimist is a guy
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> that has never had
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> much experience

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/don-marquis/archy-and-mehitabel/an-optimist-is-a-guy.md)

> oh i should worry and fret
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> death and i will coquette
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> there s a dance in the old dame yet
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> toujours gai toujours gai

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