Ogden Nash Quotes - Page 6

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• A dressing is not a compote A dressing is not a custard It consists of pepper and salt, Vinegar, oil and mustard.

  Ogden Nash

  Food, Oil, Cooking

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• A bird in the open never looks Like its picture in the birdie books - Or if it once did, it has changed its plumage, And plunges you back into ignorant gloomage.

  Ogden Nash

  Book, Bird, Ignorant

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• Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful.

  Ogden Nash

  Poetry, Poet

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• A lady wants to be dressed exactly like everybody else but she gets pretty up- set if she sees anybody else dressed exactly like her.

  Ogden Nash

  Want, Like Her, Ifs

  1964 Marriage Lines,'Thoughts Thought on an Avenue'.

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• I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.

  Ogden Nash

  Birthday, Age, Berries

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• A husband is a man who two minutes after his head touches the pillow is snoring like an overloaded omnibus.

  Ogden Nash

  Marriage, Husband, Men

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

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• Only the gamefish swims upstream, But the sensible fish swims down.

  Ogden Nash

  Swim, Sensible, Fishes

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

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• Neath tile or thatch That man is rich Who has a scratch For every itch.

  Ogden Nash

  Men, Scratches, Tiles

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

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• The codfish is a staple food For which I'm seldom in the mood. This fish is such an utter loss That people eat it with egg sauce.

  Ogden Nash

  Food, Loss, Eggs

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• Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the flies in all the ointments, the daily woes that a man endures -- take them, George, they're yours!

  Ogden Nash

  Men, Typewriters, Office

  Ogden Nash (1935). “The primrose path”

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• Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.

  Ogden Nash

  Hurt, Commitment, Political

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• So I think there is one rule every host and hostess ought to keep with the comb and nail file and bicarbonate and aromatic spirits on a handy shelf,
  Which is don't spoil the denouement by telling the guests everything is terrible, but let them have the thrill of finding it out for themselves.

  Ogden Nash

  Thinking, Guests, Nails

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

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• Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.

  Ogden Nash

  Numbers, Slumber, Telephones

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

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• The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces. The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces. Candy is dandy But liquor is quicker.

  Ogden Nash

  Drunk, Alcohol, Pieces

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• He without benefit of scruples - His fun and money soon quadruples.

  Ogden Nash

  Money, Fun, Business

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• The song of canaries
  Never varies,
  And when they're moulting
  They're pretty revolting.

  Ogden Nash

  Song, Canaries, Vary

  1931 Free Wheeling,'The Canary'.

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• I don't care how unkind the things people say about me so long as they don't say them to my face.

  Ogden Nash

  Long, People, Criticism

  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 dog is man's best friend. He has a tail on one end. Up in front he has teeth. And four legs underneath.

  Ogden Nash

  Dog, Men, Teeth

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

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• I think progress began to retrogress when Wilbur and Orville started tinkering around in Dayton and at Kitty Hawk, because I believe that two Wrights made a wrong.

  Ogden Nash

  Believe, Science, Thinking

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• The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.

  Ogden Nash

  Inspiration, People, Sin

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• And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more.

  Ogden Nash

  Suicide, Suicidal, Feet

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

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• I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

  Ogden Nash

  Thinking, Biting, Ought

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

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• They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Sarcasm, Unemployment

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• Bankers are just like anybody else, only richer

  Ogden Nash

  Bankers, Banking, Funny Money

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• Good wine needs no bush,
  And perhaps products that people really want
  Need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push.
  Why not?
  Look at pot.

  Ogden Nash

  Humorous, Wine, People

  "Most Doctors Recommend or Yours For Fast Fast Fast Relief". "The Old Dog Barks Backwards". Book by Ogden Nash, 1972.

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