Ogden Nash Quotes - Page 4

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• Snow is all right while it is snowing; it is like inebriation because it is very pleasing when it is coming, but very unpleasing when it is going.

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  Snow, Inebriation

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

  Ogden Nash

  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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• Where there is a monster, there is a miracle.

  Ogden Nash

  Miracle, Monsters

  Ogden Nash (1935). “The primrose path”

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• People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Ogden Nash (1933). “Happy Days”

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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.

  Ogden Nash

  Thinking, Heartless, Survival

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

  Ogden Nash

  Drunk

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• No man is greater than his respect for sleep.

  Ogden Nash

  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.

  Ogden Nash

  Learning, Men, Wife

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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.

  Ogden Nash

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

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  Money, Fun, Business

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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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• Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won't buy, but it's very funny- Have you ever tried to buy them without money?

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  Funny, Money, Things In Life

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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