Ogden Nash Quotes - Page 7

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• The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile.

  Ogden Nash

  Life, Sex, Clever

  "The Turtle" l. 1 (1931)

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• Linguistics becomes an ever eerier area, like I feel like I'm in Oz, Just trying to tell it like it was.

  Ogden Nash

  Justice, Trying, Feels

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• When a lady's erotic life is vexed God knows what God is coming next.

  Ogden Nash

  Sex, Erotic, Next

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• How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge!

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Obesity, Easy

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

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• 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, Glasses

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

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• Every new year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

  Ogden Nash

  New Year, Years, Long

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

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• Why did the Lord give use so much quickness unless it was to avoid responsibility?

  Ogden Nash

  Responsibility, Giving, Use

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• 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, Praying

  Ogden Nash (1935). “The primrose path”

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• There are two kinds of people who blow through life like a breeze,
  And one kind is gossipers, and the other kind is gossipees.

  Ogden Nash

  Kindness, Blow, Two

  "I Have It On Good Authority". "I'm a Stranger Here Myself". Book by Ogden Nash, 1938.

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• We love the kindly wind and hail, The jolly thunderbolt, We watch in glee the fairy trail Of ampere, watt, and volt.

  Ogden Nash

  Wind, Glee, Watches

  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 noblest lord is ushered in By the practicing physician, And the humblest lout is ushered out By a certified mortician. And in between, they find their foyers Alive with summonses from lawyers.

  Ogden Nash

  Physicians, Foyers, Alive

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

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• Dogs display reluctance and wrath If you try to give them a bath. They bury bones in hideaways And half the time they trot sideaways.

  Ogden Nash

  Dog, Time, Wrath

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

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• It is my duty, gentlemen, to inform you that women are dictators
  all, and I recommend to you this moral:
  In real life it takes only one to make a quarrel.

  Ogden Nash

  Real, Women, Gentleman

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

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• Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.

  Ogden Nash

  Clubs, Englishmen, Exclusive

  "England Expects" l. 3 (1938)

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• Don't Cry Darling, It's Blood All Right

  Ogden Nash

  Blood, Cry, Darling

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

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• A lady is known by the product she endorses.

  Ogden Nash

  Products, Known

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

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• 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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• I myself am more and more inclined to agree with Omar and Satchel Paige as I grow older: Don't try to rewrite what the moving finger has writ, and don't ever look over your shoulder.

  Ogden Nash

  Moving, Agreement, Over You

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• You can take it as understood,
  That your luck changes only if it's good.

  Ogden Nash

  Change, Inspiration, Luck

  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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• How Sunday into Monday melts!

  Ogden Nash

  Monday, Work, Sunday

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

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• One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with.

  Ogden Nash

  Family, Fun, Would Be

  'Family Court' (1931)

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• I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.

  Ogden Nash

  Love, Valentines Day, Saint

  Ogden Nash (1933). “Happy Days”

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• The sky is now indelible ink, The branches reft asunder; But you and I we do not shrink; We love the lovely thunder.

  Ogden Nash

  Sky, Lovely, Ink

  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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• To maintain your marriage brimming, with really like in the wedding cup, anytime you are incorrect, admit it each time you're proper, shut up.

  Ogden Nash

  Cups, Shut Up

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• So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and they put him in jail for it, And the fetters gave him welts, And they named America after somebody else.

  Ogden Nash

  Sunset, America, Jail

  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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