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More Quotes by Ogden Nash
Time is so old and love so brief, love is pure gold and time a thief. We're late, darling, we're late, The curtain descends, everything ends, too soon, too soon.
Too much Chablis can make you whablis.
The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.
Time is like the ocean, always there, always different.
The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit. So here we are several billion of us, crowded into our global concentration camp for the duration. How are we to survive? Solemnity is not the answer, any more than witless and irresponsible frivolity is. I think our best chance lies in humor, which in this case means a wry acceptance of our predicament. We don't have to like it but we can at least recognize its ridiculous aspects, one of which is ourselves.
The camel has a single hump, The dromedary, two; Or else the other way around; I'm never sure. Are you?
Winter is the king of showmen, Turning tree stumps into snowmen And houses into birthday cakes And spreading sugar over lakes. Smooth and clean and frosty white, The world looks good enough to bite. That’s the season to be young, Catching snowflakes on your tongue. Snow is snowy when it’s snowing, I’m sorry it’s slushy when it’s going.
Some debts are fun while you are acquiring them, But none are fun when you set about retiring them.
There was a young man of Herne Bay who was making some fireworks one day: but he dropped his cigar in the gunpowder jar. There was a young man of Herne Bay.