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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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Love is a word that is constantly heard,
Hate is a word that is not.
Love, I am told, is more precious than gold.
Love, I have read, is hot.
But hate is the verb that to me is superb,
And Love but a drug on the mart.
Any kiddie in school can love like a fool,
But Hating, my boy, is an Art.

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Art, Hate, School

'Plea for Less Malice Toward None' (1933)

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Humor is hope's companion in arms. It is not brash, it is not cheap, it is not heartless. Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit.

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Thinking, Heartless, Survival

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In real life, it takes only one to make a quarrel.

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Real, Real Life, Quarrels

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.

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Money, People

Ogden Nash (1933). “Happy Days”

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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.

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Children, Parent, Lasts

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

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It is the sin of omission, the second kind of sin,
That lays eggs under your skin.

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Eggs, Omission, Skins

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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When I ponder my mind I consistently find It is glued On food.

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Food, Mind, Pondering

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A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.

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Funny, Anniversary, Husband

'The Perfect Husband' (1949)

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In the world of mules there are no rules.

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Horse, World, Mules

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

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He is not drunk, who from the floor, can rise and stand and shout for more

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Drunk

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No man is greater than his respect for sleep.

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Funny, Humor, Sleep

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An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.

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Learning, Men, Wife

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He without benefit of scruples - His fun and money soon quadruples.

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Money, Fun, Business

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There is one fault that I must find
With the twentieth century.
And I'll put it in a couple of words;
Too adventury.
What I'd like would be some nice dull monotony
If anyone's gotony.

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Couple, Nice, Drinking

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

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Here lies my past, Goodbye I have kissed it; Thank you kids, I wouldn't have missed it.

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Goodbye, Lying, Kids

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Women would rather be right than reasonable.

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Funny, Women, Inspiration

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

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The song of canaries
Never varies,
And when they're moulting
They're pretty revolting.

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Song, Canaries, Vary

1931 Free Wheeling,'The Canary'.

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Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as legislature.... So people who go to bed to sleep Must count French premiers or sheep, And people who ought to arise from bed Yawn and go back to sleep instead.

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Sleep, Sheep, People

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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Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is but have to go out of their way to say that it is like something else.

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Writing, Race, Greek

Ogden Nash (1954). “Many long years ago”

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Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends, with the sparkle of beer and wine; May its sentiment always be deeper, my friends, than the foam at the top of the stein. Then here's to the heartening wassail, wherever good fellows are found; Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses around.

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Drinking, Heart, Wine

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Marriage is the only known example of the happy meeting of the immovable object and the irresistible force.

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Marriage, Example, Force

Ogden Nash, “I Do, I Will, I Have”

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People expect old men to die, They do not really mourn old men. Old men are different. People look At them with eyes that wonder when ... People watch with unshocked eyes; But the old men know when an old man dies.

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Eye, Men, People

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

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The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.

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Money, Obvious, Lacking

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

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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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Friday, Sleep, Weekend

"We'll All Feel Better By Wednesday". "Versus". Book by Ogden Nash, 1949.

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