Ogden Nash Quotes

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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 Nash

  Doors, Mind, Pressure

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

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

  Ogden Nash

  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.

  Ogden Nash

  Inspirational, Life, Marriage

  Ogden Nash, “A Word To Husbands”

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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.

  Ogden Nash

  Lying, Mean, Acceptance

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

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• God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.

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  God, Wisdom, Silly

  1942 Good Intentions,'The Fly'.

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

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Humor, Men

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

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• Time is like the ocean, always there, always different.

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  Time, Ocean, Inspiration

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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.

  Ogden Nash

  Fall, Inspiration, Thinking

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

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• Wind is caused by the trees waving their branches.

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  Wind, Tree, Branches

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• Humor is the best means of surviving in a difficult world.

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  Mean, Survival, World

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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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• 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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• 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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• Too much Chablis can make you whablis.

  Ogden Nash

  Wine, Too Much

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• Senescence begins
  And middle-age ends
  The day your descendants
  Outnumber your friends

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  Funny, Age, Ends

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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.

  Ogden Nash

  Dog, Tests, States

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

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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.

  Ogden Nash

  Husband, Believe, Wife

  Ogden Nash, “I Do, I Will, I Have”

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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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• No, you never get any fun
  Out of the things you haven't done.

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  Children, Fun, Done

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

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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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• I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

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  News, Eras, Wrong Person

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

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• Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Drinking, Beer

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

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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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• 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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