Ogden Nash Quotes - Page 8

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• I was born a jackdaw; why should I try to be an owl?

  Ogden Nash

  Owl, Trying, Born

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• Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

  Ogden Nash

  Love, Thinking, Mind

  'Lines on Facing Forty' (1942)

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• The moral is that it is probably better not to sin at all, but if
  some kind of sin you must be pursuing,
  Well, remember to do it by doing rather than by not doing.

  Ogden Nash

  Moral, Kind, Remember

  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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• If you are really Master of your Fate, it shouldn't make any difference to you whether Cleopatra or the Bearded Lady is your mate.

  Ogden Nash

  Marriage, Fate, Differences

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

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• Then blessings on thee, my afternoon torpor Thou makest a prince of a mental porpor.

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  Sleep, Blessing, Afternoon

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

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• One bliss for which There is no match Is when you itch To up and scratch.

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  Scratches, Bliss

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

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• Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi;
  Consider the Empire and Gandhi.

  Ogden Nash

  Empires, Modus Operandi, Provoking

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

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• Middle-aged life is merry, and I love to lead it.

  Ogden Nash

  Life Is, Middle, Middle Aged

  Ogden Nash, “Peekabo, I Almost See You”

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• Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.

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  Sleep, Human Nature, Legislature

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

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• The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.

  Ogden Nash

  Marriage, Reason, Matrimony

  Ogden Nash (1931). “Hard lines”

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• To Tom Carlson or his dog-depending on whose taste it best suits.

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  Dog, Training, Taste

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• No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed.

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  Grief, Dark, Pits

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

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• Behold the Zebra on the plains, And shudder at his mighty manes!

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  Zebras

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• This is my dream, It is my own dream, I dreamt it. I dreamt that my hair was kempt. Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it.

  Ogden Nash

  Love, Romantic, Dream

  Ogden Nash, “My Dream”

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• But children, hark! Your mother would rather, When you arrived, have been your father.

  Ogden Nash

  Mother, Children, Father

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

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• Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it.

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  Agreement, Adults, Shows

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

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• Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach, And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.

  Ogden Nash

  Interesting, Gossip, Speech

  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 old men know when an old man dies.

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  Men, Age, Old Man

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

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• The burnt child, urged by rankling ire, Can hardly wait to get back at the fire.

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  Children, Fire, Waiting

  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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• Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.

  Ogden Nash

  Basketball, Zoos, Games

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• It is common knowledge to every schoolboy and even every Bachelor of Arts,
  That all sin is divided into two parts.
  One kind of sin is called a sin of commission, and that is very
  important

  Ogden Nash

  Education, Art, Two

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

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