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Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker

Ogden Nash was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote over 500 pieces.

Poet | American

Born: 1902-08-19 in Rye, New York, USA

Died: May 19, 1971 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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.

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age

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

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age

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money?

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

Ogden Nash

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

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.

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I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.

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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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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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Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

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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.

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men

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money?

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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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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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pet

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

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Women would rather be right than reasonable.

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If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

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