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Perhaps indeed the possession of wealth is constantly distressing, But I should be quite willing to assume every curse of wealth if I could at the same time assume every blessing. (Ogden Nash)
Just when you think that at least the outlook is so black that it can grow no blacker, it worsens. View quote
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Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit... View quote
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A jolly young fellow from Yuma Told an elephant joke to a puma; now his skeleton lies beneath hot western skies- the puma had no sense of huma. View quote
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Some primal termite knocked on wood And tasted it, and found it good! View quote
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Time who makes the years to whirl Adorned as he adored you. View quote
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Abracadabra, thus we learn, The more you create, the less you earn. View quote
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My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky; Contrariwise, my blood runs cold When little boys go by. View quote
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People watch with unshocked eyes; But the old men know when an old man dies. View quote
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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. View quote
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Parsley is gharsley. (Ogden Nash)
Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.) Is planning a ban on smut. View quote
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This poem has widely been credited to Nash as a poem with the title "Fleas", but is actually the work of Strickland Gillilan and was originally titled "Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes. View quote
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A wonderful bird is a pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week; But I'm damned if I see how the helican. View quote
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The bear said, Isabel, glad to meet you, How do, Isabel, now I'll eat you! Isabel, Isabel, didn't worry. Isabel didn't scream or scurry. View quote
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. View quote
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Too clever is dumb. View quote
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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. View quote
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends. View quote
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Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit... So here we are several billion of us, crowded into our global concentration camp for the duration. How are we to survive? Solemnity is not the answer, any more than witless and irresponsible frivolity is. I think our best chance lies in humor, which in this case means a wry acceptance of our predicament. We don't have to like it but we can at least recognize its ridiculous aspects, one of which is ourselves. View quote
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People expect old men to die, They do not really mourn old men. Old men are different. People look At them with eyes that wonder when... People watch with unshocked eyes; But the old men know when an old man dies. (Ogden Nash)
I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned. View quote
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Abracadabra, thus we learn The more you create, the less you earn. The less you earn, the more you're given, The less you lead, the more you're driven, The more destroyed, the more they feed, The more you pay, the more they need, The more you earn, the less you keep, And now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to take If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake. View quote
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No, you never get any fun Out of the things you haven't done. View quote
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Time is like the ocean, always there, always different. View quote
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Ogden Nash

Occupation: American Poet
Born: August 19, 1902
Died: May 19, 1971
Quotes count: 199
Wikipedia: Ogden Nash

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