Ogden Nash Quotes - Page 5

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• A bit of talcum Is always walcum.

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  Bits

  1931 Free Wheeling,'The Baby'.

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• Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won't buy, but it's very funny- Have you ever tried to buy them without money?

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  Funny, Money, Things In Life

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

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• And you stagger down to break your fast. Greasy bacon and lacquered eggs And coffee composed of frigid dregs.

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  Coffee, Food, Eggs

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• Smallpox is natural; vaccine ain't.

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  Vaccines, Natural, Smallpox

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• Miranda in Miranda's sight is old, gray and dirty; Twenty-nine she was last night; This morning she is thirty.

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  Morning, Dirty, Night

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

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• One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.

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  Men, Perspective, Another Man

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

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• When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born.

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  Love, Thinking, One Day

  Ogden Nash, “The MIDDLe”

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• Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

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  Politics, Politician, Lord

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

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• He is not drunk, who from the floor, can rise and stand and shout for more

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  Drunk

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• Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after.

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  Time, War, Differences

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• A cough is something that you yourself cant help, but everybody else does on purpose just to torment you.

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  Doe, Purpose, Helping

  You can't get there from here

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• But all ladies think they weigh too much.

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  Women, Thinking, Too Much

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• I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.

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  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Dog

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• I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.

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  Money, Thinking, Mind

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

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• One rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it/Never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it.

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  Wisdom, Bankers, Needs

  Ogden Nash, “Bankers Are Just Like Anybody Else, Except Richer”

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• At another year I would not boggle Except that when I jog I joggle.

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  Years, Age, Another Year

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• But that wasn't fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech and then interpolate them,
  With the result that whenever you mention Old Testament soldiers to
  people they say Oh yes, they're the ones that a lot of wolves dressed up in gold and purple ate them.

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  Purple, People, Soldier

  Ogden Nash (1935). “The primrose path”

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• The only way I can distinguish proper from improper fractions is by their actions

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  Inspiration, Way, Action

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

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• The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

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  Morning, Regret, Sleep

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• The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.

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  Money, Obvious, Lacking

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

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• Ten years ago she split the air To seize what she could spy Tonight she bumps against a chair, Betrayed by milky eye. She seems to pant, Time up, time up! My little dog must die, And lie in dust with Hector's pup; I So, presently, must I.

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  Dog, Time, Betrayal

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• O thrice unhappy home Whose master doesn't know the difference between a watt and an ohm!

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  Home, Differences, Unhappy

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• Stuyvesant chats with Kelly and Katz, The professor warms to the broker, And life is good in the brotherhood Of an air-conditioned smoker.

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  Life Is Good, Air, Brotherhood

  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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• Husbands are things that wives have to
  get used to putting up with.
  And with whom they breakfast with
  and sup with.
  
  They interfere with the discipline of nurseries,
  And forget anniversaries,
  And when they have been particularly remiss,
  They think they can cure everything
  with a great big kiss.

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  Husband, Kissing, Thinking

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

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• Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.

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  Men, Care, Professionalism

  'I Yield to my Learned Brother' (1935)

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