Ogden Nash Quotes

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Ogden Nash

Profession : Poet

Birth : August 19, 1902

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

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Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.

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Women would rather be right than reasonable.

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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.

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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.

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Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

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I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.

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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.

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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.

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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.

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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.

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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

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Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

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People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.

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Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.

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Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.

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Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

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