Ogden Nash Quotes - Page 8

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• You can take it as understood,
  That your luck changes only if it's good.

  Ogden Nash

  Change, Inspiration, Luck

  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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• How Sunday into Monday melts!

  Ogden Nash

  Monday, Work, Sunday

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

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• To maintain your marriage brimming, with really like in the wedding cup, anytime you are incorrect, admit it each time you're proper, shut up.

  Ogden Nash

  Cups, Shut Up

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• One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with.

  Ogden Nash

  Family, Fun, Would Be

  'Family Court' (1931)

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• The sky is now indelible ink, The branches reft asunder; But you and I we do not shrink; We love the lovely thunder.

  Ogden Nash

  Sky, Lovely, Ink

  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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• I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.

  Ogden Nash

  Love, Valentines Day, Saint

  Ogden Nash (1933). “Happy Days”

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• So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and they put him in jail for it, And the fetters gave him welts, And they named America after somebody else.

  Ogden Nash

  Sunset, America, Jail

  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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• If you are really Master of your Fate, it shouldn't make any difference to you whether Cleopatra or the Bearded Lady is your mate.

  Ogden Nash

  Marriage, Fate, Differences

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

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• The moral is that it is probably better not to sin at all, but if
  some kind of sin you must be pursuing,
  Well, remember to do it by doing rather than by not doing.

  Ogden Nash

  Moral, Kind, Remember

  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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• Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

  Ogden Nash

  Love, Thinking, Mind

  'Lines on Facing Forty' (1942)

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• Then blessings on thee, my afternoon torpor Thou makest a prince of a mental porpor.

  Ogden Nash

  Sleep, Blessing, Afternoon

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

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• Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi;
  Consider the Empire and Gandhi.

  Ogden Nash

  Empires, Modus Operandi, Provoking

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

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• To Tom Carlson or his dog-depending on whose taste it best suits.

  Ogden Nash

  Dog, Training, Taste

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• No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed.

  Ogden Nash

  Grief, Dark, Pits

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

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• Behold the Zebra on the plains, And shudder at his mighty manes!

  Ogden Nash

  Zebras

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• This is my dream, It is my own dream, I dreamt it. I dreamt that my hair was kempt. Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it.

  Ogden Nash

  Love, Romantic, Dream

  Ogden Nash, “My Dream”

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• The burnt child, urged by rankling ire, Can hardly wait to get back at the fire.

  Ogden Nash

  Children, Fire, Waiting

  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 old men know when an old man dies.

  Ogden Nash

  Men, Age, Old Man

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

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• Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it.

  Ogden Nash

  Agreement, Adults, Shows

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

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• Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.

  Ogden Nash

  Basketball, Zoos, Games

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• It is common knowledge to every schoolboy and even every Bachelor of Arts,
  That all sin is divided into two parts.
  One kind of sin is called a sin of commission, and that is very
  important

  Ogden Nash

  Education, Art, Two

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

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