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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Funny, Birthday, Friday

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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.

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Doors, Mind, Pressure

Ogden Nash (1942). “Good intentions”, Little, Brown

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I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned.

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Funny, Humor, Men

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit. So here we are several billion of us, crowded into our global concentration camp for the duration. How are we to survive? Solemnity is not the answer, any more than witless and irresponsible frivolity is. I think our best chance lies in humor, which in this case means a wry acceptance of our predicament. We don't have to like it but we can at least recognize its ridiculous aspects, one of which is ourselves.

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Lying, Mean, Acceptance

"A Gleeful Splash of Ogden Nash" by Jonathan Yardley, www.washingtonpost.com. May 08, 2005.

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Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental.

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Funny, Dental Work, Teeth

Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

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Inspirational, Life, Marriage

Ogden Nash, “A Word To Husbands”

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So I hope husbands and wives will continue to debate and combat
Over everything debatable and combatable
Because I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life
Particularly if he has income and she is pattable.

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Husband, Believe, Wife

Ogden Nash, “I Do, I Will, I Have”

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Time is so old and love so brief, love is pure gold and time a thief. We're late, darling, we're late, The curtain descends, everything ends, too soon, too soon.

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Love Is, Gold, And Love

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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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Relationship, Marriage, Funny Birthday

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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.

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Funny, Money, Crazy

Ogden Nash (1945). “The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, New York : Modern Library

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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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Fall, Inspiration, Thinking

"Song of the Open Road" l. 1 (1933) See Kilmer 1

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Remorse is violent dyspepsia of the mind.

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Mind, Violent, Remorse

Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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There was a young man of Herne Bay
who was making some fireworks one day:
but he dropped his cigar
in the gunpowder jar.
There was a young man of Herne Bay.

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Funny, Men, Smoking

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Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.

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Long, Progress, Gone

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Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.

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Funny, Drinking, Beer

"Reflection on Ice-breaking" l. 1 (1931)

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The truth I do not stretch or shove
When I state the dog is full of love.
I've also proved, by actual test,
A wet dog is the lovingest.

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Dog, Tests, States

Ogden Nash, Étienne Delessert (1987). “Ogden Nash's zoo”, Stewart, Tabori and Chang

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There is something about a martini, Ere the dining and dancing begin, And to tell you the truth, It is not the vermouth- I think that perhaps it's the gin.

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Truth, Thinking, Dancing

Ogden Nash (1941). “The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City, N. Y : Garden City publishing Company, Incorporated

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There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but I'm afraid it's heading in the wrong direction.

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Progress, Lifetime, Headings

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Some debts are fun while you are acquiring them, But none are fun when you set about retiring them.

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Fun, Debt Free, Owing A Debt

"The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash".

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Winter is the king of showmen, Turning tree stumps into snowmen And houses into birthday cakes And spreading sugar over lakes. Smooth and clean and frosty white, The world looks good enough to bite. That’s the season to be young, Catching snowflakes on your tongue. Snow is snowy when it’s snowing, I’m sorry it’s slushy when it’s going.

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Kings, Sorry, Winter

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I drink because she nags, she said I nag because he drinks. But if the truth be known to you, He's a lush and she's a shrew.

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Drinking, Shrews, Truth Is

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Indeed, everybody wants to be a wow, But not everybody knows exactly how.

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Want, Wow, Knows

Ogden Nash (1941). “The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City, N. Y : Garden City publishing Company, Incorporated

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One thing that literature would be greatly the better for
Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor.

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Would Be, Employment, Literature

1945 Many LongYears Ago,'Very Like A Whale'.

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Too much Chablis can make you whablis.

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Wine, Too Much

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I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.

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Nonchalance, Leisure, Insouciance

Ogden Nash (1931). “Hard lines”

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Born: August 19, 1902
Died: March 19, 1971
Occupation: Poet
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