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De - Pt| Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
| A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. -- Ogden Nash | |
| Ogden's Law: The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up. | |
| Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long. -- Ogden Nash | |
| A bit of talcum Is always walcum -- Ogden Nash | |
| A mighty creature is the germ, Though smaller than the pachyderm. His customary dwelling place Is deep within the human race. His childish pride he often pleases By giving people strange diseases. Do you, my poppet, feel infirm? You probably contain a germ. -- Ogden Nash | |
| Candy Is dandy But liquor Is quicker. -- Ogden Nash, "Reflections on Ice-Breaking" Fortune updates the great quotes: #53. Candy is dandy; but liquor is quicker, and sex won't rot your teeth. | |
| Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, But it's very funny -- did you ever try buying them without money? -- Ogden Nash | |
| Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for. -- Ogden Nash | |
| 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. -- Ogden Nash | |
| One thing about the past. It's likely to last. -- Ogden Nash | |
| Parsley is gharsley. -- Ogden Nash | |
| Some primal termite knocked on wood. And tasted it, and found it good. And that is why your Cousin May Fell through the parlor floor today. -- Ogden Nash | |
| Tell me, O Octopus, I begs, Is those things arms, or is they legs? I marvel at thee, Octopus; If I were thou, I'd call me us. -- Ogden Nash | |
| The camel has a single hump; The dromedary two; Or else the other way around. I'm never sure. Are you? -- Ogden Nash | |
| The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Gives us ham and pork and Bacon. Let others think his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig. -- Ogden Nash | |
| The Preacher, the Politician, the Teacher, Were each of them once a kiddie. A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature. Do I want one? God Forbiddie! -- Ogden Nash | |
| The Rabbits The Cow Here is a verse about rabbits The cow is of the bovine ilk; That doesn't mention their habits. One end is moo, the other, milk. -- Ogden Nash | |
| The rhino is a homely beast, For human eyes he's not a feast. Farewell, farewell, you old rhinoceros, I'll stare at something less prepoceros. -- Ogden Nash | |
| The trouble with a kitten is that When it grows up, it's always a cat -- Ogden Nash. | |
| The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex. I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile. -- Ogden Nash | |
| I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned. -- Ogden Nash, "Everybody's Mind to Me a Kingdom Is" | |
| Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, But it's very funny -- did you ever try buying them without money? -- Ogden Nash | |
| People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it. -- Ogden Nash | |
| Too clever is dumb. -- Ogden Nash | |
| Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. -- Ogden Nash | |
