Ogden Nash Quotes - Page 5

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• Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

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  Life, Cute, Men

  1942 Good Intentions,'You and Me and P. B. Shelley'.

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• Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

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  Family, Children, Parenting

  "Happy Days". Book by Ogden Nash, 1933.

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• A bit of talcum Is always walcum.

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  Bits

  1931 Free Wheeling,'The Baby'.

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• The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher,
  Were each of them once a kiddie.
  A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature.
  Do I want one? God Forbiddie!

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  Teacher, Children, Want

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• The doctor gets you when you're born, The preacher, when you marry, And the lawyer lurks with costly clerks If too much on you carry. Professional men, they have no cares; Whatever happens, they get theirs.

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  Men, Doctors, Clerks

  'I Yield to my Learned Brother' (1935)

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• And you stagger down to break your fast. Greasy bacon and lacquered eggs And coffee composed of frigid dregs.

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  Coffee, Food, Eggs

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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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• Miranda in Miranda's sight is old, gray and dirty; Twenty-nine she was last night; This morning she is thirty.

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  Morning, Dirty, Night

  Ogden Nash (1936). “The bad parents' garden of verse”

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• Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

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  Politics, Politician, Lord

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

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• A cough is something that you yourself cant help, but everybody else does on purpose just to torment you.

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  Doe, Purpose, Helping

  You can't get there from here

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• Smallpox is natural; vaccine ain't.

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  Vaccines, Natural, Smallpox

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• Every new year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

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  New Year, Years, Long

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

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• I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.

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  Money, Thinking, Mind

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

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• One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.

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  Men, Perspective, Another Man

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

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• When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born.

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  Love, Thinking, One Day

  Ogden Nash, “The MIDDLe”

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• One rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it/Never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it.

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  Wisdom, Bankers, Needs

  Ogden Nash, “Bankers Are Just Like Anybody Else, Except Richer”

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• But all ladies think they weigh too much.

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  Women, Thinking, Too Much

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• Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after.

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  Time, War, Differences

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• I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.

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  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Dog

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• How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge!

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  Funny, Obesity, Easy

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

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• But that wasn't fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech and then interpolate them,
  With the result that whenever you mention Old Testament soldiers to
  people they say Oh yes, they're the ones that a lot of wolves dressed up in gold and purple ate them.

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  Purple, People, Soldier

  Ogden Nash (1935). “The primrose path”

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• The only way I can distinguish proper from improper fractions is by their actions

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  Inspiration, Way, Action

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

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• The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

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  Morning, Regret, Sleep

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• At another year I would not boggle Except that when I jog I joggle.

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  Years, Age, Another Year

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• Stuyvesant chats with Kelly and Katz, The professor warms to the broker, And life is good in the brotherhood Of an air-conditioned smoker.

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  Life Is Good, Air, Brotherhood

  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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