American - Poet | August 19, 1902 - May 19, 1971
Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?
Ogden Nash
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
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The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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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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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
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To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
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A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
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Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
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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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