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Ogden Nash: Middle age is...

Ogden Nash: Middle age is...

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

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Ogden Nash: Life is not...

Ogden Nash: Life is not...

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


Source: In...

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Ogden Nash: There is only...

Ogden Nash: There is only...

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball,
And that is to have either a clear conscience...

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Ogden Nash: I think remorse...

Ogden Nash: I think remorse...

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

Source: A Clean...

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Ogden Nash: A husband is...

Ogden Nash: A husband is...

A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips...

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Ogden Nash: If you don't...

Ogden Nash: If you don't...

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

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Ogden Nash: And one of...

Ogden Nash: And one of...

And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet...

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Ogden Nash: The most exciting...

Ogden Nash: The most exciting...

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

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Ogden Nash: Basketball, a game...

Ogden Nash: Basketball, a game...

Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to...

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Ogden Nash: I don't mind...

Ogden Nash: I don't mind...

I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it,
But I do think that they damn well...

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Thornton Wilder: The test of...

Thornton Wilder: The test of...

The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, Oh, now I've got myself into an...

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Thornton Wilder: Life is an...

Thornton Wilder: Life is an...

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Thornton Wilder: A living is...

Thornton Wilder: A living is...

A living is made, Mr. Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year. Yes, sir! And a million...

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Thornton Wilder: I am convinced...

Thornton Wilder: I am convinced...

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to...

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Thornton Wilder: The theatre is...

Thornton Wilder: The theatre is...

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: Behold! These things are. Yet most dramatists employ it to say: This moral...

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Brian Tracy: You cannot control...

Brian Tracy: You cannot control...

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you...

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Brian Tracy: The more credit...

Brian Tracy: The more credit...

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to...

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Benjamin Franklin: If you would...

Benjamin Franklin: If you would...

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

Source: From Journey in Word, ed....

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Benjamin Franklin: Clean your finger...

Benjamin Franklin: Clean your finger...

Clean your finger before you point at my spots.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Benjamin Franklin: Men and melons...

Benjamin Franklin: Men and melons...

Men and melons are hard to know.

Source: Poor Richard's Almanac.
-- Benjamin...

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