Ogden Nash Quotes - Page 3

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• Celery, raw,
  Develops the jaw

  Ogden Nash

  Eating, Celery

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

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• You are much happier when you are happy than when you ain't.

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

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• When you're wrong admit it, when you're right, shut up.

  Ogden Nash

  Shut Up

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• O money, money, money. I'm not necessarily one of those who think thee holy, but I often stop to wonder how thou canst go out so fast when thou comest in so slowly.

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  Thinking, Wonder, Holy

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• I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet.

  Ogden Nash

  Greatness, Poet

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• I drink because she nags, she said I nag because he drinks. But if the truth be known to you, He's a lush and she's a shrew.

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  Drinking, Shrews, Truth Is

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• My garden will never make me famous, I'm a horticultural ignoramus.

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  Garden, Gardening, Garden Love

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• When there are monsters there are miracles.

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  Miracle, Monsters

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• Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.

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  Marriage, Roots, Growing

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• One thing that literature would be greatly the better for
  Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor.

  Ogden Nash

  Would Be, Employment, Literature

  1945 Many LongYears Ago,'Very Like A Whale'.

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• Home is heaven and orgies are vile,
  But I like an orgy, once in a while.

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  Laughter, Home, Heaven

  Ogden Nash (1935). “The primrose path”

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• I test my bath before I sit, And I'm always moved to wonderment That what chills the finger not a bit Is so frigid upon the fundament.

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  Tests, Baths, Chill

  'Samson Agonistes' (1942)

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• Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road.

  Ogden Nash

  John Brown, Brown, Slabs

  'Lather as You Go' (1942)

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• The oboe's a horn made of wood.
  I'd play you a tune if I could,
  But the reeds are a pain,
  And the fingering's insane.
  It's the ill wind that no one blows good.

  Ogden Nash

  Pain, Blow, Wind

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• There is something about a martini, Ere the dining and dancing begin, And to tell you the truth, It is not the vermouth- I think that perhaps it's the gin.

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  Truth, Thinking, Dancing

  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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• Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.

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  Hope, Dope, Men

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

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• Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited.

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  Money, People

  Ogden Nash (1933). “Happy Days”

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• Remorse is violent dyspepsia of the mind.

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  Mind, Violent, Remorse

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

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• Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.

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  Loyalty, Adversity, Prepared

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• There once was an umpire whose vision Was cause for abuse and derision He remarked in surprise, 'Why pick on my eyes? It's my heart that dictates my decision.'

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  Sports, Heart, Eye

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• Love is a word that is constantly heard,
  Hate is a word that is not.
  Love, I am told, is more precious than gold.
  Love, I have read, is hot.
  But hate is the verb that to me is superb,
  And Love but a drug on the mart.
  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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• Humor is hope's companion in arms. It is not brash, it is not cheap, it is not heartless. Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit.

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  Thinking, Heartless, Survival

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• The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure, Which is a kind of trouble that is even more troublesome if you are poor.

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  Adversity, Kind, Trouble

  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 guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.

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  Funny, Anniversary, Husband

  'The Perfect Husband' (1949)

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• When I ponder my mind I consistently find It is glued On food.

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  Food, Mind, Pondering

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