Ogden Nash Quotes - Page 4

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• It is the sin of omission, the second kind of sin,
  That lays eggs under your skin.

  Ogden Nash

  Eggs, Omission, Skins

  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 Pig, if I am not mistaken,
  Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon.
  Let others say his heart is big,
  I think it stupid of the Pig.

  Ogden Nash

  Fun, Stupid, Heart

  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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• In real life, it takes only one to make a quarrel.

  Ogden Nash

  Real, Real Life, Quarrels

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

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• Here lies my past, Goodbye I have kissed it; Thank you kids, I wouldn't have missed it.

  Ogden Nash

  Goodbye, Lying, Kids

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• An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.

  Ogden Nash

  Learning, Men, Wife

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• There is one fault that I must find
  With the twentieth century.
  And I'll put it in a couple of words;
  Too adventury.
  What I'd like would be some nice dull monotony
  If anyone's gotony.

  Ogden Nash

  Couple, Nice, Drinking

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

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• Women would rather be right than reasonable.

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Women, Inspiration

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

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• No man is greater than his respect for sleep.

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Humor, Sleep

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• Where there is a monster, there is a miracle.

  Ogden Nash

  Miracle, Monsters

  Ogden Nash (1935). “The primrose path”

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• People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it.

  Ogden Nash

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Ogden Nash (1933). “Happy Days”

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• Marriage is the only known example of the happy meeting of the immovable object and the irresistible force.

  Ogden Nash

  Marriage, Example, Force

  Ogden Nash, “I Do, I Will, I Have”

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• Bankers are just like everybody else, except richer.

  Ogden Nash

  Money, Bankers

  'Bankers are Just Like Everybody Else, Except Richer' by Ogden Nash, 1954.

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• Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends, with the sparkle of beer and wine; May its sentiment always be deeper, my friends, than the foam at the top of the stein. 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, Wine

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• Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder,
  Such as fating us to spend the first part of our lives
  being embarrassed by our parents and the last part
  being embarrassed by our children.

  Ogden Nash

  Children, Parent, Lasts

  "What I Know About Life". "Versus". Book by Ogden Nash, 1949.

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• Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as legislature.... So people who go to bed to sleep Must count French premiers or sheep, And people who ought to arise from bed Yawn and go back to sleep instead.

  Ogden Nash

  Sleep, Sheep, People

  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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• Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is but have to go out of their way to say that it is like something else.

  Ogden Nash

  Writing, Race, Greek

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

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• Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

  Ogden Nash

  Family, Children, Parenting

  "Happy Days". Book by Ogden Nash, 1933.

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• Some hate broccoli, some hate bacon I hate having my picture taken. How can your family claim to love you And then demand a picture of you?

  Ogden Nash

  Hate, Love You, Taken

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

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• People expect old men to die, They do not really mourn old men. Old men are different. People look At them with eyes that wonder when ... People watch with unshocked eyes; But the old men know when an old man dies.

  Ogden Nash

  Eye, Men, People

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

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• Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

  Ogden Nash

  Life, Cute, Men

  1942 Good Intentions,'You and Me and P. B. Shelley'.

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• Snow is all right while it is snowing; it is like inebriation because it is very pleasing when it is coming, but very unpleasing when it is going.

  Ogden Nash

  Snow, Inebriation

  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 Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher,
  Were each of them once a kiddie.
  A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature.
  Do I want one? God Forbiddie!

  Ogden Nash

  Teacher, Children, Want

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• The doctor gets you when you're born, The preacher, when you marry, And the lawyer lurks with costly clerks If too much on you carry. Professional men, they have no cares; Whatever happens, they get theirs.

  Ogden Nash

  Men, Doctors, Clerks

  'I Yield to my Learned Brother' (1935)

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• Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy.
  You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday.
  No wonder you feel that lost sensation.
  You're sunk from a riot of relaxation.

  Ogden Nash

  Friday, Sleep, Weekend

  "We'll All Feel Better By Wednesday". "Versus". Book by Ogden Nash, 1949.

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• In the world of mules there are no rules.

  Ogden Nash

  Horse, World, Mules

  Ogden Nash, Étienne Delessert (1987). “Ogden Nash's zoo”, Stewart, Tabori and Chang

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