Quotes by Ogden Nash

Ogden Nash

Ogden Nash

American poet

Lived from: 1902 - 1971

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 19 august 1902 Died: 19 may 1971

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  • Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
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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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  • One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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  • Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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  • People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
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  • Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
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  • Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
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  • Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
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  • The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.
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  • The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
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  • The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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  • There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.
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  • 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.
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  • They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.
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  • Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.
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  • Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You're sunk from a riot of relaxation.
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