Ogden Nash quotes
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“Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.”
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“If some confectioners were willing To let the shape announce the filling, We'd encounter fewer assorted chocs, Bitten into and returned to the box.”
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“When I ponder my mind I consistently find It is glued On food.”
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“The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure, Which is a kind of trouble that is even more troublesome if you are poor.”
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“No, you never get any fun Out of the things you haven't done.”
-- Ogden NashSource : Ogden Nash (1945). “The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, New York : Modern Library
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“Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road.”
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“If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.”
-- Ogden NashSource : Ogden Nash (1945). “The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, New York : Modern Library
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“Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.”
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“The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.”
-- Ogden NashSource : Ogden Nash (1942). “Good intentions”, Little, Brown
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“Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.”
-- Ogden NashSource : Ogden Nash, “A Word To Husbands”
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“Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.”
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“Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.”
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“Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.”
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“When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.”
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“Bankers are just like anybody else, only richer”
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“Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think that their children are naive.”
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“Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.”
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“People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.”
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“I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.”
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“The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.”
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“My garden will never make me famous, I'm a horticultural ignoramus.”
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“Why did the Lord give use so much quickness unless it was to avoid responsibility?”
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“The cow is of the bovine ilk: One end is moo, the other, milk.”
-- Ogden NashSource : 'The Cow' (1931)
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“God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.”
-- Ogden NashSource : 1942 Good Intentions,'The Fly'.
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“I have an idea that the phrase weaker sex was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm.”
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“Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year.”
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“Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You're sunk from a riot of relaxation.”
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“Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental.”
-- Ogden NashSource : Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc
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“Tonight's December thirty-first, something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!”
-- Ogden Nash
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