Ogden Nash Quotes - Page 6

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• Ten years ago she split the air To seize what she could spy Tonight she bumps against a chair, Betrayed by milky eye. She seems to pant, Time up, time up! My little dog must die, And lie in dust with Hector's pup; I So, presently, must I.

  Ogden Nash

  Dog, Time, Betrayal

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• Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful.

  Ogden Nash

  Poetry, Poet

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• O thrice unhappy home Whose master doesn't know the difference between a watt and an ohm!

  Ogden Nash

  Home, Differences, Unhappy

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• A dressing is not a compote A dressing is not a custard It consists of pepper and salt, Vinegar, oil and mustard.

  Ogden Nash

  Food, Oil, Cooking

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• A bird in the open never looks Like its picture in the birdie books - Or if it once did, it has changed its plumage, And plunges you back into ignorant gloomage.

  Ogden Nash

  Book, Bird, Ignorant

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• Husbands are things that wives have to
  get used to putting up with.
  And with whom they breakfast with
  and sup with.
  
  They interfere with the discipline of nurseries,
  And forget anniversaries,
  And when they have been particularly remiss,
  They think they can cure everything
  with a great big kiss.

  Ogden Nash

  Husband, Kissing, Thinking

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

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• Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.

  Ogden Nash

  Men, Care, Professionalism

  'I Yield to my Learned Brother' (1935)

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• A lady wants to be dressed exactly like everybody else but she gets pretty up- set if she sees anybody else dressed exactly like her.

  Ogden Nash

  Want, Like Her, Ifs

  1964 Marriage Lines,'Thoughts Thought on an Avenue'.

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• I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.

  Ogden Nash

  Birthday, Age, Berries

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• Only the gamefish swims upstream, But the sensible fish swims down.

  Ogden Nash

  Swim, Sensible, Fishes

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

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• A husband is a man who two minutes after his head touches the pillow is snoring like an overloaded omnibus.

  Ogden Nash

  Marriage, Husband, Men

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

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• Neath tile or thatch That man is rich Who has a scratch For every itch.

  Ogden Nash

  Men, Scratches, Tiles

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

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• The codfish is a staple food For which I'm seldom in the mood. This fish is such an utter loss That people eat it with egg sauce.

  Ogden Nash

  Food, Loss, Eggs

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• There are two kinds of people who blow through life like a breeze,
  And one kind is gossipers, and the other kind is gossipees.

  Ogden Nash

  Kindness, Blow, Two

  "I Have It On Good Authority". "I'm a Stranger Here Myself". Book by Ogden Nash, 1938.

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• Middle-aged life is merry, and I love to lead it.

  Ogden Nash

  Life Is, Middle, Middle Aged

  Ogden Nash, “Peekabo, I Almost See You”

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• Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the flies in all the ointments, the daily woes that a man endures -- take them, George, they're yours!

  Ogden Nash

  Men, Typewriters, Office

  Ogden Nash (1935). “The primrose path”

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• Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.

  Ogden Nash

  Sleep, Human Nature, Legislature

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

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• Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.

  Ogden Nash

  Hurt, Commitment, Political

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• So I think there is one rule every host and hostess ought to keep with the comb and nail file and bicarbonate and aromatic spirits on a handy shelf,
  Which is don't spoil the denouement by telling the guests everything is terrible, but let them have the thrill of finding it out for themselves.

  Ogden Nash

  Thinking, Guests, Nails

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

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• Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.

  Ogden Nash

  Numbers, Slumber, Telephones

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

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• I was born a jackdaw; why should I try to be an owl?

  Ogden Nash

  Owl, Trying, Born

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• The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces. The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces. Candy is dandy But liquor is quicker.

  Ogden Nash

  Drunk, Alcohol, Pieces

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• One bliss for which There is no match Is when you itch To up and scratch.

  Ogden Nash

  Scratches, Bliss

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

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• I don't care how unkind the things people say about me so long as they don't say them to my face.

  Ogden Nash

  Long, People, Criticism

  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 dog is man's best friend. He has a tail on one end. Up in front he has teeth. And four legs underneath.

  Ogden Nash

  Dog, Men, Teeth

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

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