22 Famous Quotes by Ogden Nash
8/19/1902 - 3/19/1971
Also Known As:
Frederic Ogden Nash
Nash, Ogden
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About Ogden Nash
Frederic Ogden Nash was an American poet well known for his light verse. At the time of his death in 1971, the New York Times said his "droll verse with its unconventional rhymes made him the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry". Ogden Nash wrote over 500 pieces of comic verse. The best of his work was published in 14 volumes between 1931 and 1972.
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
Ageing
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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
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Daybreak is one of the greatest disadvantages of living under the solar system: It means having to get up almost the very minute you go to bed, And bathe and shave and scrub industriously at your molar system And catch a train and go to the office an
Dawn
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Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them
Debt
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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
Priorities
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I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.
Advertising
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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.
Alliance
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Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year.
Seasons
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They take the paper and they read the headlines, So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of breadlines, And they philanthropically cure them all By getting up a costume charity ball.
Charity
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Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
Debt
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A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Family
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