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Ogden Nash
You scour the...
You scour the Bowery, ransack the Bronx,
Through funeral parlors and honky-tonks.
From river to river you comb...
The most exciting...
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
If you are...
If you are really Master of your Fate,
It shouldn't make any difference to you whether Cleopatra or the Bearded...
A bit of...
A bit of talcum
Is always walcum.
Source: The Baby
-- Ogden Nash, (Aug 19...
Good wine needs...
Good wine needs no bush,
And perhaps products that people really want need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV...
I prefer to...
I prefer to forget both pairs of glasses and pass my declining years saluting strange women and grandfather...
No matter how...
No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud,
Their heads are heroically unbloody and...
The camel has...
The camel has a single hump;
The dromedary, two;
Or else the other way around.
I'm never sure. Are...
The song of...
The song of canaries
Never varies,
And when they're moulting
They're pretty...
Indoors or out,...
Indoors or out, no one relaxes
In March, that month of wind and taxes,
The wind will presently disappear,
The...
Middle-aged life is...
Middle-aged life is merry, and I love to lead it.
Source: Peekaboo, I almost See...
Candy,<br>Is dandy,<br>But Liquor,<br>Is...
Candy,
Is dandy,
But Liquor,
Is quicker.
Source: Reflections on...
Tell me, O...
Tell me, O Octopus, I begs,
Is those things arms, or is they legs?
I marvel at thee, Octopus; If I were thou,...
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...
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...
Any kiddies in...
Any kiddies in school can love like a fool,
But hating, my boy, is an art.
Your hair may...
Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's
untidy,
You've had about seven hours' sleep since Friday,
No...
Some people's money...
Some people's money is merited
And other people's is inherited.
Source: The...
The turtle lives...
The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks
Which practically conceal its sex.
I think it clever of the turtle
In...
A cough is...
A cough is something that you yourself can't help, but everybody else does on purpose just to torment...