Ogden Nash Quotes - Page 2

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• Time is like the ocean, always there, always different.

  Ogden Nash

  Time, Ocean, Inspiration

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• Abracadabra, thus we learn
  The more you create, the less you earn.
  The less you earn, the more you're given,
  The less you lead, the more you're driven,
  The more destroyed, the more they feed,
  The more you pay, the more they need,
  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, Needs

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

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• So I hope husbands and wives will continue to debate and combat
  Over everything debatable and combatable
  Because I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life
  Particularly if he has income and she is pattable.

  Ogden Nash

  Husband, Believe, Wife

  Ogden Nash, “I Do, I Will, I Have”

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• There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but I'm afraid it's heading in the wrong direction.

  Ogden Nash

  Progress, Lifetime, Headings

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• To love is an active verb.

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  Love, Love Is, Verbs

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

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• Tonight's December thirty-first, something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!

  Ogden Nash

  Children, Dark, Ducks

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• I think that I shall never see
  A billboard lovely as a tree.
  Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
  I'll never see a tree at all.

  Ogden Nash

  Fall, Inspiration, Thinking

  "Song of the Open Road" l. 1 (1933) See Kilmer 1

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• Senescence begins
  And middle-age ends
  The day your descendants
  Outnumber your friends

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Age, Ends

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• I have an idea that the phrase weaker sex was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm.

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Sex, Women

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• If some confectioners were willing
  To let the shape announce the filling,
  We'd encounter fewer assorted chocs,
  Bitten into and returned to the box.

  Ogden Nash

  Chocolate, Encounters, Shapes

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

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• The camel has a single hump, The dromedary, two; Or else the other way around; I'm never sure. Are you?

  Ogden Nash

  Two, Camels, Way

  'The Camel' (1936)

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• The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.

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  Sarcastic, Cat, Sarcasm

  "The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash".

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• I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.

  Ogden Nash

  Nonchalance, Leisure, Insouciance

  Ogden Nash (1931). “Hard lines”

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• Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.

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  Long, Progress, Gone

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• The cow is of the bovine ilk: One end is moo, the other, milk.

  Ogden Nash

  Animal, Bovine, Cows

  'The Cow' (1931)

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• Some debts are fun while you are acquiring them, But none are fun when you set about retiring them.

  Ogden Nash

  Fun, Debt Free, Owing A Debt

  "The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash".

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• How confusing the beams from memory's lamp are; One day a bachelor, the next a grampa. What is the secret of the trick? How did I get so old so quick?

  Ogden Nash

  Memories, Confusing, Secret

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• There was a young man of Herne Bay
  who was making some fireworks one day:
  but he dropped his cigar
  in the gunpowder jar.
  There was a young man of Herne Bay.

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Men, Smoking

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• A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

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  Funny, Dog, Illiteracy

  "A Dog's Best Friend Is His Illiteracy". "The Private Dining Room". Book by Ogden Nash, 1953.

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• If called by a panther, don't anther.

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  Advice, Panthers, Ifs

  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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• Time is so old and love so brief, love is pure gold and time a thief. We're late, darling, we're late, The curtain descends, everything ends, too soon, too soon.

  Ogden Nash

  Love Is, Gold, And Love

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• Winter is the king of showmen, Turning tree stumps into snowmen And houses into birthday cakes And spreading sugar over lakes. Smooth and clean and frosty white, The world looks good enough to bite. That’s the season to be young, Catching snowflakes on your tongue. Snow is snowy when it’s snowing, I’m sorry it’s slushy when it’s going.

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  Kings, Sorry, Winter

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• All husbands are alike, but they have different faces so you can tell them apart.

  Ogden Nash

  Wedding, Husband, Different Faces

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• All that glitters is sold as gold.

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  Gold, Glitter

  Ogden Nash, “Look What You Did, Christopher!”

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• Indoors or out, no one relaxes
  In March, that month of wind and taxes,
  The wind will presently disappear,
  The taxes last us all the year.

  Ogden Nash

  Spring, Years, Wind

  "Thar She Blows". "Versus". Book by Ogden Nash, 1949.

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