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American
-
Poet
August 19
, 1902 -
May 19
, 1971
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden Nash
Children
,
Parents
,
Happy
,
Ignore
,
Giving
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
Ogden Nash
Dog
,
Door
,
Wrong
,
Side
,
Wrong Side
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
Love
,
Marriage
,
Loving
,
You
,
Wrong
,
Your
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
Ogden Nash
Hope
,
Home
,
Age
,
Night
,
You
,
Sitting
The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
Ogden Nash
Pet
,
Trouble
,
Cat
,
Kitten
,
Becomes
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
Man
,
Woman
,
Sex
,
She
,
Some
,
Idea
The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.
Ogden Nash
End
,
Cow
,
Milk
,
Other
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
Ogden Nash
Happiness
,
Scratch
,
Itch
,
Every
,
Having
Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.
Ogden Nash
Candy
,
Liquor
,
Quicker
,
Dandy
One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
Ogden Nash
Man
,
Remorse
,
Another
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Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
Ogden Nash
Fun
,
You
,
Some
,
About
,
Them
,
None
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
Ogden Nash
Funny
,
Progress
,
Long
,
Gone
,
Alright
The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
Ogden Nash
People
,
Sin
,
Only
,
Who
,
Should
,
Grin
Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
Ogden Nash
Mind
,
Remorse
,
Violent
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
Ogden Nash
Age
,
People
,
You
,
Meet
,
Someone
,
New
Too clever is dumb.
Ogden Nash
Dumb
,
Clever
,
Too
I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.
Ogden Nash
Tree
,
Think
,
Fall
,
Never
,
See
,
Lovely
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
Happiness
,
Way
,
Achieve
,
Conscience
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
Ogden Nash
Work
,
People
,
Down
,
Sitting
,
Standing
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
Ogden Nash
Marriage
,
People
,
Never
,
Two
,
Two People
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
Ogden Nash
Children
,
Parents
,
Think
,
Naive
,
Web
,
Oh
Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?
Ogden Nash
Long
,
New
,
Year
,
Line
,
Criminals
,
Every
No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
Ogden Nash
Fun
,
You
,
Never
,
Done
,
Things
,
Out
I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.
Ogden Nash
Great
,
Valentine
,
Claim
,
Saint
,
Another
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
Ogden Nash
Happiness
,
Control
,
Beyond
,
Your
,
Most
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
Ogden Nash
Life
,
Live
,
My Life
,
Living
,
Rather
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