Tag: Ogden Nash
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Ogden Nash: Terrestrial ball
“There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.” —Ogden Nash.
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Ogden Nash: Kempt, unkempt
“I dreamt that my hair was kempt. Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it.” —-Ogden Nash.
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Ogden Nash: There was a young man of Herne Bay
“There was a young man of Herne Bay who was making some fireworks one day: but he dropped his cigar in the gunpowder jar. There was a young man of Herne Bay.” —Ogden Nash.
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Ogden Nash: Conscientious man
“I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned.” —Ogden Nash.
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Ogden Nash: They really don’t want it
“People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven’t what they want that they really don’t want it.” —Ogden Nash.
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Ogden Nash: Wolves, shepherds and butchers
“Either you get eaten by a wolf today or else the shepherd saves you from the wolf so he can sell you to the butcher tomorrow.” —Ogden Nash.
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Ogden Nash: Paid more
“People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.” —-Ogden Nash.
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Ogden Nash: Either or
“Either you get eaten by a wolf today or else the shepherd saves you from the wolf so he can sell you to the butcher tomorrow.” —Ogden Nash, I’m a Stranger Here Myself.
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Ogden Nash: Marriage
“Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with the window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.” —Ogden Nash.
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Ogden Nash: Opens outwards
“The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.” —Ogden Nash.
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Ogden Nash: Preparing to overwhelm
‘I have an idea that the phrase “weaker sex” was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.’ —Ogden Nash.
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Ogden Nash: Tangled web
“Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.” —Ogden Nash.
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Ogden Nash: Middle age
“Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.” —Ogden Nash.
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Ogden Nash: Immature indefinitely
“You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.” —Ogden Nash.
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Ogden Nash: Marriage
“To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up.” —Ogden Nash.
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Ogden Nash: Bigoted mind
The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly. -Ogden Nash, poet (19 Aug 1902-1971)
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Ogden Nash: Babies
“Everybody who has a baby thinks everybody who hasn’t a baby ought to have a baby.” ~Ogden Nash.
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Ogden Nash: Marriage
“To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up. ” —Ogden Nash, poet (1902-1971).
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Ogden Nash: Dental torture
Some tortures are physical / And some are mental, / But the one that is both / Is dental. –Ogden Nash, poet (1902-1971) Embed from Getty Images
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Ogden Nash: Of llamas
“The one-l lama, He’s a priest. The two-l llama, He’s a beast. And I will bet A silk pajama There isn’t any Three-l lllama.” —Ogden Nash Embed from Getty Images Related articles An Awkward Song about Llamas (chrisjbradley.com) Llama Kisses (rollingbayfarm.com) What’s a herd of llamas worth? (thegazette.com)
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