Ogden Nash Quotes - Page 3

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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.

  Ogden Nash

  Spring, Years, Wind

  "Thar She Blows". "Versus". Book by Ogden Nash, 1949.

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• O money, money, money. I'm not necessarily one of those who think thee holy, but I often stop to wonder how thou canst go out so fast when thou comest in so slowly.

  Ogden Nash

  Thinking, Wonder, Holy

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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.

  Ogden Nash

  Kings, Sorry, Winter

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• Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.

  Ogden Nash

  Marriage, Roots, Growing

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• All husbands are alike, but they have different faces so you can tell them apart.

  Ogden Nash

  Wedding, Husband, Different Faces

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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.

  Ogden Nash

  Drinking, Shrews, Truth Is

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• Celery, raw,
  Develops the jaw

  Ogden Nash

  Eating, Celery

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

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• I test my bath before I sit, And I'm always moved to wonderment That what chills the finger not a bit Is so frigid upon the fundament.

  Ogden Nash

  Tests, Baths, Chill

  'Samson Agonistes' (1942)

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• Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road.

  Ogden Nash

  John Brown, Brown, Slabs

  'Lather as You Go' (1942)

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• Bankers are just like everybody else, except richer.

  Ogden Nash

  Money, Bankers

  'Bankers are Just Like Everybody Else, Except Richer' by Ogden Nash, 1954.

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• The oboe's a horn made of wood.
  I'd play you a tune if I could,
  But the reeds are a pain,
  And the fingering's insane.
  It's the ill wind that no one blows good.

  Ogden Nash

  Pain, Blow, Wind

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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.

  Ogden Nash

  Would Be, Employment, Literature

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

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• When there are monsters there are miracles.

  Ogden Nash

  Miracle, Monsters

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• You are much happier when you are happy than when you ain't.

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

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• Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.

  Ogden Nash

  Hope, Dope, Men

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

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• Remorse is violent dyspepsia of the mind.

  Ogden Nash

  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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• Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited.

  Ogden Nash

  Money, People

  Ogden Nash (1933). “Happy Days”

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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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  Adversity, Kind, Trouble

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

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• My garden will never make me famous, I'm a horticultural ignoramus.

  Ogden Nash

  Garden, Gardening, Garden Love

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• Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.

  Ogden Nash

  Loyalty, Adversity, Prepared

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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 once was an umpire whose vision Was cause for abuse and derision He remarked in surprise, 'Why pick on my eyes? It's my heart that dictates my decision.'

  Ogden Nash

  Sports, Heart, Eye

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• Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder,
  Such as fating us to spend the first part of our lives
  being embarrassed by our parents and the last part
  being embarrassed by our children.

  Ogden Nash

  Children, Parent, Lasts

  "What I Know About Life". "Versus". Book by Ogden Nash, 1949.

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• The Pig, if I am not mistaken,
  Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon.
  Let others say his heart is big,
  I think it stupid of the Pig.

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  Fun, Stupid, Heart

  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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• Some hate broccoli, some hate bacon I hate having my picture taken. How can your family claim to love you And then demand a picture of you?

  Ogden Nash

  Hate, Love You, Taken

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

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