Ogden Nash Quotes - Page 7

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• I think progress began to retrogress when Wilbur and Orville started tinkering around in Dayton and at Kitty Hawk, because I believe that two Wrights made a wrong.

  Ogden Nash

  Believe, Science, Thinking

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• The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.

  Ogden Nash

  Inspiration, People, Sin

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• And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more.

  Ogden Nash

  Suicide, Suicidal, Feet

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

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• I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

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  Thinking, Biting, Ought

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

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• They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Sarcasm, Unemployment

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• Bankers are just like anybody else, only richer

  Ogden Nash

  Bankers, Banking, Funny Money

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• Good wine needs no bush,
  And perhaps products that people really want
  Need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push.
  Why not?
  Look at pot.

  Ogden Nash

  Humorous, Wine, People

  "Most Doctors Recommend or Yours For Fast Fast Fast Relief". "The Old Dog Barks Backwards". Book by Ogden Nash, 1972.

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• The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile.

  Ogden Nash

  Life, Sex, Clever

  "The Turtle" l. 1 (1931)

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• Linguistics becomes an ever eerier area, like I feel like I'm in Oz, Just trying to tell it like it was.

  Ogden Nash

  Justice, Trying, Feels

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• When a lady's erotic life is vexed God knows what God is coming next.

  Ogden Nash

  Sex, Erotic, Next

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• Then here's to the heartening wassail, Wherever good fellows are found; Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses around.

  Ogden Nash

  Drinking, Heart, Glasses

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

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• Why did the Lord give use so much quickness unless it was to avoid responsibility?

  Ogden Nash

  Responsibility, Giving, Use

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• The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.

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  Marriage, Reason, Matrimony

  Ogden Nash (1931). “Hard lines”

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• The more you earn, the less you keep, And now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to take, If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake.

  Ogden Nash

  Sleep, Soul, Praying

  Ogden Nash (1935). “The primrose path”

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• We love the kindly wind and hail, The jolly thunderbolt, We watch in glee the fairy trail Of ampere, watt, and volt.

  Ogden Nash

  Wind, Glee, Watches

  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 noblest lord is ushered in By the practicing physician, And the humblest lout is ushered out By a certified mortician. And in between, they find their foyers Alive with summonses from lawyers.

  Ogden Nash

  Physicians, Foyers, Alive

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

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• Dogs display reluctance and wrath If you try to give them a bath. They bury bones in hideaways And half the time they trot sideaways.

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  Dog, Time, Wrath

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

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• It is my duty, gentlemen, to inform you that women are dictators
  all, and I recommend to you this moral:
  In real life it takes only one to make a quarrel.

  Ogden Nash

  Real, Women, Gentleman

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

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• Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.

  Ogden Nash

  Clubs, Englishmen, Exclusive

  "England Expects" l. 3 (1938)

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• Don't Cry Darling, It's Blood All Right

  Ogden Nash

  Blood, Cry, Darling

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

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• Any kiddie in school can love like a fool, But Hating, my boy, is an Art.

  Ogden Nash

  Art, Hate, School

  'Plea for Less Malice Toward None' (1933)

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• A lady is known by the product she endorses.

  Ogden Nash

  Products, Known

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

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• I myself am more and more inclined to agree with Omar and Satchel Paige as I grow older: Don't try to rewrite what the moving finger has writ, and don't ever look over your shoulder.

  Ogden Nash

  Moving, Agreement, Over You

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• But children, hark! Your mother would rather, When you arrived, have been your father.

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  Mother, Children, Father

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

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• Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach, And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.

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  Interesting, Gossip, Speech

  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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