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Quotations by author » Ogden Nash
American Writer of humorous poetry who won a large following for his audacious verse. 1902-1971
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Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?
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God in his wisdom made the fly and then forgot to tell us why
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
Happiness
Hark to the whimper of the seagull. / He weeps because he's not an ea-gull. / Suppose you were, you silly seagull. / Could you explain it to your she-gull?
Humor
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!
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Home is heaven and orgies are vile/ But you need an orgy, once in a while.
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How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge!
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I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.
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I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
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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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I have a bone to pick with Fate / Come here and tell me, girlie, / Do you think my mind is maturing late,/ Or simply rotting early?
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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers
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I prefer to forget both pairs of glasses and pass my declining years saluting strange women and grandfather clocks.
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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
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I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.
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I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
Living
If called by a panther,/ don't anther.
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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.
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If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work
Work
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