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iWinkels.be snel gemakkelijk de juiste winkel of winkels vinden
 
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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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Parents
Parsley is gharsley
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People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces properly if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the 25th of December
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People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it
People
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
People
Poets aren't very useful Because they aren't consumeful or produceful
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Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs
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Progress may have been all right once, but it has gone on too long
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Purity is obscurity.
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Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
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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.
MankindSleep
Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them
Debt
Some people's money is merited/ And other people's is inherited.
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Some tortures are physical and some are mental, but the one that's both is dental.
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Someone invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumber, Ringing wrong but similar numbers
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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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Tell me, O Octopus, I begs,/ Is those things arms, or is they legs?/ I marvel at thee, Octopus; If I were thou, I'd call me Us.
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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.
Bed
The camel has a single hump;/ The dromedary, two;/ Or else the other way around./ I'm never sure. Are you?
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The cow is of the bovine ilk; One end is moo, the other, milk
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